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A Deceptive and Corrupt Plot
Commentators explain that the conspirators' plan relied on deception and the known corruption of the Sanhedrin's leaders. They proposed lying to the Roman commander, requesting Paul for a 'more exact' hearing, while fully intending to murder him en route. This highlights the moral decay of the religious authorities who were willing to collude in a murder plot disguised as a judicial process.
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Albert Barnes
On Acts 23:15
18th Century
Theologian
You, with the council. With the concurrence or request of the Sanhedrin. It was only by such a request that they had any hope that the com…
AT Robertson
On Acts 23:15
Ye (υμεις). Emphatic.
Signify (εμφανισατε). First aorist active imperative of εμφανιζω. Make plain from εμ…
Charles Ellicott
On Acts 23:15
19th Century
Bishop
Now therefore ye with the council . . .—The plot was necessary, either:
- because the Sanhedrin had lost, unde…
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Acts 23:15
Failing in their earlier plot to kill Paul in the temple precincts, more than forty fanatical Jews (probably many of them Asian Jews who had instig…
John Gill
On Acts 23:15
17th Century
Pastor
Now therefore you with the council
The whole sanhedrim; their sense is, that they would have the sanhedrim convened …
Matthew Henry
On Acts 23:12–24
17th Century
Minister
False religious principles, adopted by carnal men, urge toward such wickedness, as human nature would hardly be thought capable of. Yet the Lord re…