“But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,”
But Lysias the commander came along, and with great violence took him out of our hands — Tertullus attributes the rescue to Lysias's violent intervention, portraying the commander's action as an obstruction of justice. The accusation implicitly criticizes Rome for interfering with Jewish legal process.
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