So the chief captain. — The chiliarch is obviously glad of the intelligence. His sympathies are clearly with St. Paul personally as against the high priest and his followers. He welcomes an opportunity for showing his zeal for the safe-keeping of a Roman citizen, and for making a statement of the whole transaction from his own point of view. With true official caution he treats the communication he has received as confidential, and takes his measures accordingly.
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Acts 23:22
22 So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.