The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging - according to the Roman practice;
That he might know wherefore they cried so against him. Paul's speech being to him in an unknown tongue, he concluded, from the horror which it kindled in the vast audience, that he must have been guilty of some crime.