18Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
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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. …
Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
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 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. …
And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Paul, with a great deal of expense and hazard, is brought a prisoner to Rome, and when he has come nobody appears to prosecute him or lay any thing to his charge; but he must call his own cause; and here he represents it to the chief of the Jews at Rome. It was not long since, by an edict of Claudius, all the Jews were banished from Rome, and kept out till his death; but, in the five years since t…
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