examined him
Or, tortured him.
Then straightway - Immediately. They saw that by scourging him they would have Violated the Roman law, and exposed themselves to its penalty....
Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was (d) a Roman,...
After the Speech, in the Barracks. Like Stephen, Paul is interrupted, and threatened with stoning. The throwing dust into the air is probably to be...
straightway . Greek. eutheos, as in Acts 21:30 (forthwith). departed . See note on Acts 19:9 . should have, &c . = were about to examin...
Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and...
Which should have examined him:— Put him to the question or torture. See on Acts 22:24 . The latter part of the verse might be better rendered...
Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, a...
St. Paul's Defence 1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1) hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (...
Which should have examined him. — The verb had acquired the secondary sense (just as “putting to the question” did in mediæval administration of ju...
Saved for Further Service Acts 22:17-30 To the story of his conversion, as given in Acts 9:1-43 , the Apostle here adds a detailed account of...
Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the Gentiles. In tha...
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that...
Then straightway they departed from him, which should have examined him ,.... By scourging; namely, the soldiers, who under the inspection of the ce...
And as they The soldiers ordered by the tribune; were binding him with thongs In order to their scourging him; Paul said unto the centurion that...
The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts more serio...
Paul's First Defence. 22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then li...
They departed from him, who had bound him, and would have scourged him. The chief captain also was afraid; the crime of breaking the privileges o...
‘Those then who were about to examine him straightway left him alone, and the chief captain also was afraid when he knew that he was a Roman, and bec...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 22:22 . Away with such a fellow from the earth .—As in Acts 21:36 . It is not fit . Better, it was not fit that he...
Acts 22:1 . Men, brethren, and fathers; that is, men of mixed nations assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help. Bret...
The chief captain commanded him to be brought to the castle. The Jews, the Boman, and the Christian I. The Jews in their conduct, which necessi...
EXPOSITION Acts 22:1 Brethren for men, brethren, A.V. ( Acts 7:2 , note); the for my, A.V.; now make for make now, A.V. The defens...
Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him; and the chief captain also was afraid after he knew that he was a Roman, and...
Arrangements for a decent hearing:
Acts 16:38 ; Acts 16:39 ; Acts 22:24 ; Acts 22:25 ; Acts 22:26 ; Hebrews 11:35
29 Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him:a and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.