Acts 23:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

Acts 23:27 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 22:25-29
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned? …
Acts 21:31-33
And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. …
Acts 24:6
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
Acts 23:10
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.

Topics

Caesarea Cesarea Claudius Lysius Felix Minister, Christian

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-35)

We have here the story of a plot against the life of Paul; how it was laid, how it was discovered, and how it was defeated. I. How this plot was laid. They found they could gain nothing by popular tumult, or legal process, and therefore have a recourse to the barbarous method of assassination; they will come upon him suddenly, and stab him, if they can but get him within their reach. So restless i…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 27)

26-30. Claudius--the Roman name he would take on purchasing his citizenship. Lysias--his Greek family name. the most excellent governor--an honorary title of office.