Then they all took Sosthenes — The successor of Crispus, and probably Paul's chief accuser, and beat him — It seems because he had occasioned them so much trouble to no purpose, before the judgment seat — One can hardly think in the sight of Gallio, though at no great distance from him. And it seems to have had a happy effect. For Sosthenes himself was afterward a Christian, 1 Corinthians 1:1.
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Acts 18:17
17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio cared for none of those things.