Acts 23:16

And when Paul's sister's son, &c. The Rev. Ver.keeps to the Greek construction, "But Paul's sister's son heard … and he came, &c."

We have no other mention of the family of St Paul anywhere in the history. It seems improbable that the sister and her son were settled inhabitants of Jerusalem, or we should have been likely to hear of them on Paul's previous visits. His imprisonment at this time was only to keep him from being killed, and so any relative or friend was permitted to come to him.

he went and entered into the castle The margin of the Rev. Ver.gives the rendering of the text with a different punctuation: "he heard of their lying in wait, having come in upon themand he entered, &c."