Acts 23:10 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

A great dissension: feuds about pretended religion are usually among all men very sharp, because their opinions, being the issues of their own brains, are more beloved than their children, the fruit of their bodies. Commanded the soldiers to go down; from the fort or castle, unto which there was an ascent or stair, to go up and down by.

Acts 23:10

10 And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.