ACTS 23:35 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.”
he said, 'I will hear your case fully when your accusers also have come.' And he ordered him to be kept in Herod's praetorium — Felix postpones judgment pending the arrival of the Jewish prosecutors. Paul is detained in Herod's palace (converted to a Roman administrative building), a more comfortable detention than military barracks.
Church Fathers on Acts 23:35
Like some king whom his body-guards escort, so did these convey Paul; in such numbers too, and by night, for fear of the wrath of the people. Now then you will say that they have got him out of the city, they desist from their violence? No indeed. But (the tribune) would not have sent him off with such care for his safety, but that while he himself had found nothing amiss in him, he knew the murderous disposition of his adversaries. And when the governor had read the letter,…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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