Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Acts 28:17
After three days. We see indicated his restless activity. In three
days after his arrival as a prisoner he begins his work. The first
three days had probably been devoted to the brethren.
The chief of the Jews. The leading Jews. Josephus says that fifty
years earlier there were 8,000 Jews in Rome. A quarter of the city
north of the Tiber was given up to them. In A.D. 49, they had been
banished by decree of the Emperor Claudius, but shortly after were
allowed to return. At this time they enjoyed favor, Poppaea, the wife
of Nero, being a proselyte to the Jewish faith. These chiefs would
include the rulers of the synagogues, the scribes, and the heads of the
leading families.
Men, brethren. In a short speech, of which we have only an abstract,
he told them how he came to be there as a prisoner. No doubt he fully
explained the ground of enmity and his appeal; so fully that when he
said,
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Acts 28:17
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