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Ac 22:1-30.

PAUL'S DEFENSE FROM THE STAIRS OF THE FORTRESS--THE RAGE OF THE AUDIENCE BURSTING FORTH, THE COMMANDANT HAS HIM BROUGHT INTO THE FORT TO BE EXAMINED BY SCOURGING, BUT LEARNING THAT HE IS A ROMAN, HE ORDERS HIS RELEASE AND COMMANDS THE SAMHEDRIM TO TRY HIM.

2. when they heard . . . the Hebrew tongue--(See on

Ac 21:40).

they kept the more silence--They could have understood him in Greek, and doubtless fully expected the renegade to address them in that language, but the sound of their holy mother tongue awed them into deeper silence.

3. a Jew of Tarsus, brought up in this city, at the feet--(See on

Lu 10:39).

of Gamaliel--(See on

Ac 5:34);

a fact of great importance in the apostle's history, standing in the same relation to his future career as Moses' education in the Egyptian court to the work for which he was destined.

the perfect manner of the law of the fathers--the strictest form of traditional Judaism.

zealous--"a zealot."

toward God as ye all are this day--his own former murderous zeal against the disciples of the Lord Jesus being merely reflected in their present treatment of himself.

4. I persecuted, &c.--(See on

Ac 9:1,2;

Ac 9:5-7).

5. the high priest--still alive.

doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders--the whole Sanhedrim.

8. Jesus of Nazareth--the Nazarene. See on

Ac 9:5.

9-11. they that were with me--(See on

Ac 9:7,

&c.)

12. Ananias, a devout man, according to the law, having a good report of all the Jews which dwelt there--One would not know from this description of Ananias that he was a Christian at all, the apostles object being to hold him up as unexceptionable, even to the most rigid Jews.