29Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
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And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. …
And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove. …
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…
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