‏ Acts 21:33

     33. commanded him to be bound with two chains—(See on Ac 12:6).

‏ Acts 22:22

     22, 23. gave him audience to this word . . . then . . . Away with such a fellow from the earth, &c.—Their national prejudices lashed into fury at the mention of a mission to the Gentiles, they would speedily have done to him as they did to Stephen, but for the presence and protection of the Roman officer.

‏ Acts 25:24

     22-27. I would also hear—"should like to hear."

      the man myself—No doubt Paul was fight when he said, "The king knoweth of these things . . . for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner" (Ac 26:26). Hence his curiosity to see and hear the man who had raised such commotion and was remodelling to such an extent the whole Jewish life.

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