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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 23:1
Paul's Defense Before the Sanhedrin
SUMMARY OF ACTS 23: The Insult of the High Priest. Paul's Rebuke. His
Appeal to the Pharisees. Their Favor. The Dissension; Paul Removed.
The Vision of the Lord in the Night. The Plot of the Sicarii.
Revealed to the Chief Captain by Paul's Nephew. Paul Sent Under an
Escort of Soldiers to Caesarea. The Letter of Claudius Lysias to
Felix.
Paul, earnestly beholding the council. Attentively studying his
audience, and no doubt seeking whether there were old acquaintances
among the members of the Sanhedrin. He probably knew at least a part of
the body. Many years before he had been its trusted agent, to execute
its orders against Christians; now he is on trial before it for being
one of that body which it formerly employed him to destroy. They
regarded him a renegade, much as out countrymen regard Benedict Arnold,
and their hate was so vindictive that they were utterly unable to
listen calmly to his defense. Hence, as soon as he began by declaring
that he had acted "in all good conscience until this day", the high
priest ordered that he be smitten in the mouth (Ac 23:2).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 23:1
2 Timothy 1:3
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