Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Acts 23:22

"So the chief captain let the young man go, charging him, Tell no man that thou hast signified these things to me." — Acts 23:22 (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.