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Acts 23:25

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And he wrote the following letter:

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And he wrote a letter after this form:

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And he wrote a letter after this manner:

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Commentary

6 notes on this verse

A commentator

Theophylact of Ohrid

Commentary on Acts · Written before 1107.

Here is a letter written in defense of him and in accusation of the Jews. Look: Paul is acknowledged as innocent not by the Jews, but by foreigners, just as Christ was by Pilate.

This site's exposition

he wrote the following letter

on Acts 23:25-27

Lysias writes that he rescued Paul because he had learned that he is a Roman citizen. The claim shades the truth, since 22:25-29 shows Lysias learned this only after nearly having Paul flogged.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 49 · Written before 407.

proposed

"And he wrote a letter after this manner: Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting. This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman. And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council: whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds. And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Fare ye well." See how the letter speaks for him as a defence-for it says, "I found nothing worthy of death," but as accusation against them rather than against him.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Now that Paul was brought before them he thought to have faced them down, but could not, such was their wicked impudence. However, now was fulfilled in him what God promised to Ezekiel ( ch. iii.

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And he wrote a letter after this manner. The chief captain wrote a letter to Felix the governor, the form and sum of which were as follow; this letter he sent by one of the centurions to him.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

He wrote a letter after this manner - It appears that this was not only the substance of the letter, but the letter itself: the whole of it is so perfectly formal as to prove this; and in this simple manner are all the letters of the ancients formed. In this also we have an additional proof of St. Luke’s accuracy.

The words behind it

6 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.

  • γράψαςhaving written

    grapsasG1125 →189 times

  • ἐπιστολὴνa letter

    epistolenG1992 →24 times

  • ἔχουσανhaving

    echousanG2192 →707 times

  • τὸν<the>

    tonG3588 →19766 times

  • τύπονform

    tuponG5179 →15 times

  • τοῦτον·¶this:

    toutonG3778 →1381 times

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

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.
Acts: the study guide →Read Acts 23 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; J. A. Alexander, The Acts of the Apostles Explained; 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); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Theophylact of Ohrid, Commentary on Acts.

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