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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Acts 23:14

And they came to the chief priests and elders and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND THEY CAME ... - Probably by a deputation. TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS - The members of the Great Council, or Sanhedrin. It is probable that the application was made to the party of the Sadduce...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JEWISH PLOT: REMOVAL OF PAUL. The Jews propose what the tribune, in Acts 22:30 to Acts 23:10, has already done on his own initiative; here we are on historical ground. The hated person being removed f...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE STRATEGY OF PAUL (Acts 23:1-10)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    On the next night the Lord stood by Paul and said, "Courage! As you have testified for me in Jerusalem, so you must bear witness in Rome also." When it was day the Jews formed a plot and laid themselv...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ELDERS. App-189. WE HAVE BOUND... CURSE. Literally we have anathematized ourselves (see Mark 14:71) with an anathema.. Hebraism. Figure of speech _Polyptoton._ App-6. CURSE. Greek. _anathema._ Here;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _they came to the chief priests and elders_ Who were most likely of the Sadducees" part, and who therefore would have no wish to save St Paul's life. _We have bound ourselves under a great curse_ Lit...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΤΟΙ͂Σ�, _to the chief priests and elders_. These most likely were Sadducees, and so would have no wish that Paul should be spared. ἈΝΑΘΈΜΑΤΙ�, _we have bound ourselves under a great curse_. Literally...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    PAUL IS CHEERED BY A VISION. THE JEWS CONSPIRE TO KILL HIM...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE JEWS CONSPIRED TO KILL PAUL ACTS 23:12-24:_ There was so much hatred toward Paul that more than forty Jewish men vowed that they would not eat nor drink until they had killed him. They even asked...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΠΡΟΣΕΛΘΌΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (сопутств.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΈΡΧΟΠΜΑΙ (G4334) приходить к кому-л. ΕΊΠΑΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 23:1. ΆΝΆΘΕΜΑ (G331) проклятие, нечто разрушительное (TDNT; GELTS, 28; Levitic...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    WE HAVE BOUND OURSELVES UNDER A GREAT CURSE,— _We have bound ourselves by a solemn anathema,_ seems a proper rendering of the emphatic original. Such execrable vows as these, were not unusual with the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    g. The plot for Paul's life and his escape. Acts 23:12-30. Acts 23:12 And when it was day, the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink...

  • Combined Bible Commentary

    See notes on verse 12...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    AND THEY CAME TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS, AND SAID, WE HAVE BOUND OURSELVES UNDER A GREAT CURSE, THAT WE WILL EAT NOTHING UNTIL WE HAVE SLAIN PAUL. And they came to the chief priests and elders...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    10 The captain was more concerned that a Roman citizen should not be injured than to get their report, and so sends his soldiers to rescue him a second time from their clutches. It was well that he wa...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ST. PAUL SENT TO CÆESAREA 1. St. Paul often asserts his good conscience before God and man: see Acts 22:3; Acts 24:16....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    ST. PAUL IS SENT TO CÆSAREA....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 23 PAUL SPEAKS TO THE *SANHEDRIN, 23:1-11 V1 Paul looked straight at the *Sanhedrin. He said, ‘My brothers, my conscience feels good about how...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THEY CAME TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS. — It will be remembered that the high priest Ananias had already shown the rough brutality of his nature in his treatment of St. Paul, and was now, we can sc...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    τοῖς ἀρχ., _cf._ Acts 4:23, see critical note on reading in [373] (Blass). ἀναθέματι ἀνεθεμ.: “we have bound ourselves under a great curse,” thus representing the emphatic Hebrew idiom, _cf._ Acts 5:2...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    WOULD-BE MURDERERS BAFFLED Acts 23:12 The Lord had told His servant that he was needed in Rome, but the conspirators said that he should not leave Jerusalem. There is only one conclusion when such a...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    By action of the Roman governor, Paul was arraigned before the Jewish Sanhedrin. Hardly had he commenced before he was interrupted and insulted. It was a most trying ordeal for the apostle. It is easi...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    The Lord Protected Paul From the Jews With all the hostility the Jews had shown him since his arrival in Jerusalem, Paul may have doubted if he would ever escape that city and fulfill his desire to pr...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    THE CONSPIRACY AND DELIVERANCE 11-35. That mighty vision was the secret of Paul's redoubtable courage and sanctified versatility. He knew he was to “see Rome.” God's heroes are immortal until the last...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. (13) And they were more than forty...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    − 14._They came to the chief priests. _Seeing that the priests agree to such a wicked and ungodly conspiracy, by this they prove that there was in them neither any fear of God, neither yet any humanit...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Paul addresses the council with the gravity and dignity of an upright man accustomed to walk with God. It is not a testimony borne to them for their good; but the appeal of a good conscience to their...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND THEY CAME TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS, AND ELDERS,.... Who were members of the sanhedrim, to acquaint them with their designs: AND SAID, WE HAVE BOUND OURSELVES UNDER A GREAT CURSE, THAT WE WILL EAT NOT...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul. Ver. 14. _And they came to the chief priests a...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And they came to the chief priests and elders_ Who were of the sect of the Sadducees, and Paul's greatest enemies, telling them what they had done; and desiring them to ask _the chief captain_ to _br...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    In this hearing the chief captain did not take the place of an adjudicator, nor was there any other judicial authority present to keep order. Paul then takes advantage of the occasion to speak earnest...

  • Manly Luscombe Commentary on New Testament

    NOW THERE WERE MORE THAN FORTY WHO HAD FORMED THIS CONSPIRACY. 14 They came to the chief priests and elders, and said, " We have bound ourselves under a great oath that we will eat nothing until we...

  • Mark Dunagan Commentaries

    Acts 23:14-15 Here is the plot that sadly the Jewish leadership endorsed. The idea would be to convince the Roman commander to bring Paul for. more thorough investigation and on the way from the fortr...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    12-24 False religious principles, adopted by carnal men, urge on to such wickedness, as human nature would hardly be supposed capable of. Yet the Lord readily disappoints the best concerted schemes o...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY CAME TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS, whose place and office it was to have dissuaded such an abominable murder: _For the priest's lips should keep knowledge,_ ZECHARIAH 2:7. And they could not b...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Acts 23:14 They G3748 to G4334 (G5631) priests G749 and G2532 elders G4245 said G2036 (G5627) bound...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And they came to the chief priests and the elders, and said, “We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Paul. Now therefore do you, with the council, signify...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE JEWS PLAN AN AMBUSH WITH THE PURPOSE OF SLAYING PAUL, WHICH IS THWARTED BY PAUL'S NEPHEW AND THE DIVINE HAND (23:12-24). We discover here how the hatred that has followed Paul around at the hands...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Acts 23:14. AND THEY CAME TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS, AND SAID, WE HAVE BOUND OURSELVES UNDER A GREAT CURSE, THAT WE WILL EAT NOTHING TILL WE HAVE SLAIN PAUL. No doubt the party of religious assa...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    CAME TO THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS (προσελθοντες τοις αρχιερευσιν κα τοις πρεσβυτεροις). The Sanhedrin, just as Judas did (Luke 22:4).WITH A GREAT CURSE (αναθεματ). This use of the same word...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Paul before the Sanhedrin. The conspiracy to kill Paul and its defeat. Paul sent to Felix. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Ananias, Pharisees, Sadduces, Paul's sister's son, centurion, chief...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Acts 23:2. _Smite him on the mouth._ Ananias the highpriest commanded this, when he heard Paul profess a good conscience, and determined to persevere in preaching Christ. So Ahab commanded Micaiah to...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    THEY TOOK A VOW. These Jews may have been some of his bitter enemies from Ephesus who had grabbed him in the temple. They may have been "armed terrorists" [Zealots - Assassins], who later played such...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul._ Paul in the castle at Jerusalem On two other occasions a special Divine encouragement was given to Paul similar to t...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 23:14 THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS were the dominant forces on the Sanhedrin. Most were Sadducees, the group most opposed to Paul. ⇐

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 23:12. The Jews (rather than CERTAIN OF THE JEWS) who banded themselves together UNDER A CURSE to kill Paul were not the members of the Sanhedrim, who had forgotten their opini...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION ACTS 23:1 _Looking steadfastly on _for _earnestly beholding, _A.V.; _brethren _for _men and brethren, _A.V._; I have lived before God, _etc., for _I have lived, _etc., _before God, _A.V. L...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And so Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day (Acts 23:1). Paul was indeed a remarkable man. As Paul is writing to...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hosea 4:9; Isaiah 3:9; Jeremiah 6:15; Jeremiah 8:12; Micah 7:3;...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    We have bound ourselves under a great curse [α ν α θ ε μ α τ ι α ν ε θ ε μ α τ ι σ α μ ε ν ε α υ τ ο υ ς]. Lit., we have anathematized ourselves with an anathema. A very strong expression. For similar...

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