Acts 26:31 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds. — St. Luke obviously dwells on the witness thus given to St. Paul’s innocence. To us, knowing him as we do, the anxiety to record the witness seems superfluous; but it was not so when the historian wrote. The charge of what we should call lawless and revolutionary tendencies had been too often brought against the Apostle (Acts 17:6), and was too current against his followers, to make such a record one that he could willingly pass over.

Acts 26:31

31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.