Chapter 23

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earnestly Acts 23:6, Acts 6:15, Acts 22:5; Prov 28:1

Men Acts 22:1

I have Acts 24:16; 1Cor 4:4; 2Cor 1:12, 2Cor 4:2; 2Tim 1:3; Heb 13:18; 1Pet 3:16


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Ananias Acts 24:1

to smite 1Kgs 22:24; Jer 20:2; Mic 5:1; Matt 26:67; John 18:22


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God God did smite him in a remarkable manner; for about five years after this, after his house had been reduced to ashes, in a tumult raised by his own son, he was besieged and taken in the royal palace; where having attempted in vain to hide himself, he was dragged out and slain.

thou whited Matt 23:27-28

for Lev 19:35; Ps 58:1-2, Ps 82:1-2, Ps 94:20; Eccl 3:16; Amos 5:7; Mic 3:8-11

smitten Deut 25:1-2; John 7:51, John 18:24


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I wist Soon after the holding of the first council at Jerusalem, Ananias, son of Nebedenus, was deprived of the high priest's office, for certain acts of violence, and sent to Rome, whence he was afterwards released, and returned to Jerusalem. Between the death of Jonathan, who succeeded him and was murdered by Felix, and the high priesthood of Ismael, who was invested with that office by Agrippa, an interval elapsed in which this dignity was vacant. This was the precise time when Paul was apprehended; and the Sanhedrin being destitute of a president, Ananias undertook to discharge the office. It is probable that Paul was ignorant of this circumstance. Acts 24:17

Thou Exod 22:28; Eccl 10:20; 2Pet 2:10; Jude 1:8-9


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Paul Matt 10:16

I am Acts 26:5; Phil 3:5

of the hope Acts 24:15, Acts 24:21, Acts 26:6-8, Acts 28:20


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there Acts 14:4; Ps 55:9; Matt 10:34; John 7:40-43


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Acts 4:1; Matt 22:23; Mark 12:18; Luke 20:27


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We Acts 25:25, Acts 26:31; 1Sam 24:17; Prov 16:7; Luke 23:4, Luke 23:14-15, Luke 23:22

if Acts 23:8, Acts 9:4, Acts 22:7, Acts 22:17-18, Acts 26:14-19, Acts 27:23; John 12:29

let Acts 5:39, Acts 11:17; 1Cor 10:22


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fearing Acts 23:27, Acts 19:28-31, Acts 21:30-36; Ps 7:2, Ps 50:22; Mic 3:3; Jas 1:19, Jas 3:14-18; Jas 4:1-2

to take Acts 22:24


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the Lord Acts 2:25, Acts 18:9, Acts 27:23-24; Ps 46:1-2, Ps 109:31; Isa 41:10, Isa 41:14, Isa 43:2; Jer 15:19-21; Matt 28:20; John 14:18; 2Cor 1:8-10

Be Acts 27:22, Acts 27:25; Matt 9:2, Matt 14:27; John 16:33

for Acts 19:21, Acts 20:22, Acts 22:18, Acts 28:23-28; Rom 1:15-16; Phil 1:13; 2Tim 4:17

must Acts 28:30-31; Isa 46:10; John 11:8-10


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certain Acts 23:21, Acts 23:30, Acts 25:3; Ps 2:1-3, Ps 64:2-6; Isa 8:9-10; Jer 11:19; Matt 26:4

bound 1Kgs 19:2; 2Kgs 6:31; Matt 27:25; Mark 6:23-26

under a curse or, with an oath of execration, Lev 27:29; Josh 6:26, Josh 7:1, Josh 7:15; Neh 10:29; Matt 26:74 *Gr: 1Cor 16:22; Gal 3:13

that Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt (Acts 25:2-3). If these were, in their bad way, conscientious men, they were under no necessity of perishing for hunger, when the providence of God had hindered them from accomplishing their vow; for their vows of abstinence from eating and drinking were as easy to loose as to bind, any of their wise men or Rabbis having power to absolve them, as Dr. Lightfoot has shown from the Talmud. 1Sam 14:24, 1Sam 14:27-28, 1Sam 14:40-44; Ps 31:13


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which 2Sam 15:12, 2Sam 15:31; John 16:2


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Ps 52:1-2; Isa 3:9; Jer 6:15, Jer 8:12; Hos 4:9; Mic 7:3


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that he Acts 25:3; Ps 21:11, Ps 37:32-33; Prov 1:11-12, Prov 1:16, Prov 4:16; Isa 59:7; Rom 3:14-16


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when Job 5:13; Prov 21:30; Lam 3:37; 1Cor 3:19

he went 2Sam 17:17


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one Acts 23:23, Acts 22:26; Prov 22:3; Matt 8:8-9, Matt 10:16


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Paul Acts 16:25, Acts 27:1, Acts 28:17; Gen 40:14-15; Eph 3:1, Eph 4:1; Phlm 1:9

something Luke 7:40


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took Jer 31:32; Mark 8:23, Mark 9:27

What Neh 2:4; Esth 5:3, Esth 7:2, Esth 9:12; Mark 10:51


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The Jews Acts 23:12

as Acts 23:15; Ps 12:2; Dan 6:5-12


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do not Exod 23:2

for Acts 23:12-14, Acts 9:23-24, Acts 14:5-6, Acts 20:19, Acts 25:3; 2Cor 11:26, 2Cor 11:32-33

an oath Acts 23:14; Rom 9:3


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Josh 2:14; Mark 1:44


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two centurions Acts 23:17

at About nine o'clock in the evening, for the greater secrecy, and to elude the cunning, active malice of the Jews. Matt 14:25; Luke 12:38


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beasts Neh 2:12; Esth 8:12; Luke 10:34

Felix Acts 23:26, Acts 23:33-35, Acts 24:3, Acts 24:10, Acts 24:22-27, Acts 25:14

the governor Matt 27:2; Luke 3:1


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the most Acts 24:3, Acts 26:25 *Gr: Luke 1:3

greeting Acts 15:23; Jas 1:1; 3John 1:14


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was taken Acts 23:10, Acts 21:31-33, Acts 24:7

having Acts 22:25-29


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Acts 22:30


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questions Acts 23:6-9, Acts 18:15, Acts 24:5-6, Acts 24:10-21, Acts 25:19-20

but Acts 25:7-8, Acts 25:11, Acts 25:25, Acts 26:31


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it was Acts 23:16-24

and gave Acts 24:7-8, Acts 25:5-6

Farewell Acts 15:29; 2Cor 13:11


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as Acts 23:23-24; Luke 7:8; 2Tim 2:3-4


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delivered Acts 23:25-30

presented Acts 28:16


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he asked Acts 25:1; Esth 1:1, Esth 8:9; Dan 2:49, Dan 6:1; Luke 23:6

Cilicia Acts 15:41, Acts 21:39


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when Acts 23:30, Acts 24:1, Acts 24:10, Acts 24:22, Acts 24:24-27, Acts 25:16

in Matt 2:1, Matt 2:3, Matt 2:16

judgment Matt 27:27; John 18:28


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