29Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.
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Then the chief captain came near, and took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains; and demanded who he was, and what he had done.
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him. …
And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans. …
Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22-30)Paul was going on with this account of himself, had shown them his commission to preach among the Gentiles without any peevish reflections upon the Jews, and we may suppose designed next to show how he was afterwards, by a special direction of the Holy Ghost at Antioch, separated to this service, how tender he was of the Jews, how respectful to them, and how careful to give them the precedency in…
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