Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Acts 23:18

"So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and saith, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and asked me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say to thee." — Acts 23:18 (ASV)

The seriousness with which the commander took the warning about the plot shows that he knew Ananias was the kind of man who could support such action and realized that Jewish feeling against Paul was strong enough to nurture it.