Acts 25:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

Desired favour; though it seems to have been but justice, that they might be allowed to try Paul for such crimes as were within their cognizance; yet that they might the more easily obtain their desire, they beg it as a favour. Laying wait in the way to kill him; which did worse become magistrates and priests than any men, to act thus against the law of nature, and to be sure also against the law of the land, to hire ruffians to assassinate Paul.

Acts 25:3

3 And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.