2Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
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About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.
And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one. …
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We commonly say, “New lords, new laws, new customs;” but here was a new governor, and yet Paul had the same treatment from him that he had from the former, and no better. Festus, like Felix, is not so just to him as he should have been, for he does not release him; and yet not so unjust to him as the Jews would have had him to be, for he will not condemn him to die, nor expose him to their rage. H…
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