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Acts 23:22

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So the commander dismissed the young man and instructed him, “Do not tell anyone that you have reported this to me.”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So the chief captain let the young man go, charging him, Tell no man that thou hast signified these things to me.

KJV

So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.

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This verse in Acts 23

Commentary

7 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Paul's sister's son--(See on Ac 9:30). If he was at this time residing at Jerusalem for his education, like Paul himself, he may have got at the schools those hints of the conspiracy on which he so promptly acted.

This site's exposition

The Jews have agreed to ask

on Acts 23:20-22

The nephew repeats the plot exactly, which gives the commander what he needs to act. His order to tell no one protects the boy from reprisal and shows a competent officer handling a security matter.

This site's exposition

Do not tell anyone

John Chrysostom notes that the commander kept the matter close, giving his orders to the centurions only when the hour came to act. Matthew Henry adds that he saw how near he had come to sharing in the crime. Secrecy protected the escort.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 49 · Written before 407.

proposed

"So the tribune then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast showed these things to me." Moreover he gives his orders to the centurions only, at the time when the thing was to be done: and so Paul is sent into Caesarea, that there too he might discourse in a greater theatre and before a more splendid audience: that so the Jews may not be able to say, "If we had seen Paul, we would have believed-if we had heard him teaching." Therefore this excuse too is cut off from them.

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

How the plot was defeated: The chief captain, finding how implacable and inveterate the malice of the Jews was against Paul, how restless they were in their designs to do him a mischief, and how near he was to become himself accessory to it as a minister, resolves to send him away with all speed out of their reach.
So the chief captain then let the young man depart,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

The chief captain's care of Paul's safety, by which he prevented the execution of the design; he sent him away immediately under a strong guard from Jerusalem to Cæsarea, which was now the residence of Felix, the Roman governor, and there he safely arrived,

The words behind it

15 Greek words

Every Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

2 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Mark 1:44

    “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and present the offering Moses prescribed for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 14:1–32

      Then the LORD said to Moses,

    • Luke 17:14

      When Jesus saw them, He said, “Go, show yourselves to the priests.” And as they were on their way, they were cleansed.

    • Matthew 8:4

      Then Jesus instructed him, “See that you don’t tell anyone. But go, show yourself to the priest and offer the gift prescribed by Moses, as a testimony to them.”

    • 1 Corinthians 10:11

      Now these things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come.

    • Romans 15:4

      For everything that was written in the past was written for our instruction, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures, we might have hope.

  • Through

    Joshua 2:14

    “Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”

    it leads to

    • Judges 1:24–25

      and when the spies saw a man coming out of the city, they said to him, “Please show us how to get into the city, and we will treat you kindly.”

    • Matthew 5:7

      Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

    • Genesis 24:49

      Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere.”

Where this verse is studied

About Acts

The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
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This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, Homily on Acts 49; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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