The high-priest doth bear me witness,— That is, "I can appeal to him for the proof of this." It will not follow from hence, that he who was nowhigh-priest, also bore that office when St. Paul persecuted the Christians; he might then perhaps be only an inferior member of the sanhedrim. Instead of all the estate of the elders, some read the whole court of the elders; the Greek is πρεσβυτεριον, the presbytery, or sanhedrim.
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Acts 22:5
5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.