Acts 22:28
With a great sum obtained I this freedom - The freedom or privilege of Roman citizenship. From this it would seem that the privilege of being a R...
After the Speech, in the Barracks. Like Stephen, Paul is interrupted, and threatened with stoning. The throwing dust into the air is probably to be...
sum . Greek. kephalaion. Only here and Hebrews 8:1 . In Septuagint Leviticus 6:4 . Numbers 4:2 ; Numbers 5:7 (principal), &c. obtained ....
− 28. With a great sum. The chief captain objecteth this to refute him as if he should say, that the freedom of the city is not so common, a...
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. With a great sum obtained I this free...
But I was free born.— This is thought, by some, to have been in consequence of his being a native of Tarsus; but Dr. Lardner has produced many stro...
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. And the chief captain answered, With...
St. Paul's Defence 1-21. St Paul's Speech to the People. St. Paul was accused of (1) hostility to the Jews, (2) contempt for the Jewish Law, and (...
See on Acts 16:37 . It is evident that the chief captain had not bought the citizenship under Claudius (41-54 a.d.), who sold it for a merely nomina...
With a great sum obtained I this freedom. — Better, this citizenship, the word expressing, not the transition from bondage to freedom, but from t...
Saved for Further Service Acts 22:17-30 To the story of his conversion, as given in Acts 9:1-43 , the Apostle here adds a detailed account of...
Paul's defense as here recorded is a rare and perfect example of Christian argument. He was defending his devotion to work among the Gentiles. In tha...
And they gave him audience unto this word, and then lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not fit that...
And the chief captain answered, with a great sum obtained I this freedom ,.... For, it seems, he was not a Roman born, but very likely a Grecian, or...
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born. Ver. 28. With a great sum ] Or, w...
And as they The soldiers ordered by the tribune; were binding him with thongs In order to their scourging him; Paul said unto the centurion that...
The crowd having been quietened, Paul speaks with fullest respect for those he addresses, and doing so in the Hebrew language, he attracts more serio...
Paul's First Defence. 22 And they gave him audience unto this word, and then li...
The historian relates, that the emperor Claudius sold this privilege to such foreigners as had not by any notable service merited to have it conferre...
‘And the chief captain came and said to him, “Tell me, are you a Roman?” And he said, “Yes.” And the chief captain answered, “With a great sum obtain...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 22:22 . Away with such a fellow from the earth .—As in Acts 21:36 . It is not fit . Better, it was not fit that he...
freedom Citizenship. was free born Am a Roman born, that is, of a father who had obtained citizenship.
Acts 22:1 . Men, brethren, and fathers; that is, men of mixed nations assembled at the feast. The persecutors had said, men of Israel, help. Bret...
The chief captain commanded him to be brought to the castle. The Jews, the Boman, and the Christian I. The Jews in their conduct, which necessi...
EXPOSITION Acts 22:1 Brethren for men, brethren, A.V. ( Acts 7:2 , note); the for my, A.V.; now make for make now, A.V. The defens...
Paul and the Chief Captain. Paul asserts his citizenship:
And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. and Paul said, But I was free-born. Paul's simple declaration of fact th...
But I was free born — Not barely as being born at Tarsus; for this was not Roman colony. But probably either his father, or some of his ancestors,...
28 And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.