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Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:3

Acts 23:3. God shall smite thee, thou whited wall, &c.— Alluding to the beautiful outside of some walls which are full of dirt and rubbish within. See on Mat 23:27 and Luke 11:44. The account which Josephus gives of the character and fate of Ananias, abundantly illustrates this prophetic speech of St. Paul. He might well be called a whited wall, not only as he committed this indecency in violation of the law, (Leviticus 19:15.) while gravely sitting in a sacred character on the tribunal of... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:5

Acts 23:5. I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest:— Animated on a sudden by the secret impulse of a prophetic Spirit, which bore him, as it were, for that moment beyond himself, St. Paul delivered the words of Act 23:3 which being urged against him, he chose not to enter upon a question so difficult to be cleared up, as the divine original of that impulse on his mind, by which he found himself inclined to utter those remarkable words; and only touched upon a circumstance attending... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:6

Acts 23:6. Of the hope and resurrection, &c.— The apostle here refers particularly to the resurrectionof Jesus, and, by him, of all mankind. All the Jews, long before, knew this to be the Christian doctrine; and therefore here was no fraud nor artful gloss to obtain favour with the Pharisees; but only an appeal to their prevailing doctrine, as a point in which the apostle agreed with them, and as what greatly favoured the Christian doctrine which he preached, and for which he suffered. See... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:8

Acts 23:8. For the Sadducees, &c.— "For, on one hand, the Sadducees, those freethinkers of the age, deny that there will be a resurrection of the dead, or that there is any such permanent being, as an angel, in the invisible world, or a separate spirit of man that survives the death of the body, and subsists in a state of disunion from it: but, on the contrary, the Pharisees, the strictest sect of the Jews, contend earnestly for the certainty of the resurrection of the body, and the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:9

Acts 23:9. Let us not fight against God.— When they mentioned it as a supposable case, that an angel might have spoken to him, they might probably allude to the many visions and revelations which St. Paul, in his late speech to the people, had professed to have received. Gamaliel was now dead, otherwise one would have supposed that he had made this speech, it being so very like that which he is recorded to have made, ch. Acts 5:39. Party spirit now carried the Pharisees to say the same things... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:11

Acts 23:11. The Lord stood by him, &c.— This plainly shews that our Lord approved of the part which St. Paul had acted before the sanhedrim, though some had censured it without understanding or considering the circumstance of it. Witsius observes, that it must have been a greater consolation to so faithful a soldier of Christ as St. Paul was, having been thus approved and encouraged by his general, to be led on to further combats, than to be immediately dismissed: and such a temper he... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:14

Acts 23:14. We have bound ourselves under a great curse,— We have bound ourselves by a solemn anathema, seems a proper rendering of the emphatic original. Such execrable vows as these, were not unusual with the Jews, who challenged to themselves a right of punishing those without any legal process, whom they considered as transgressors of the law; and in some cases, thought that they were justified in killing them. Josephus mentions a case not much unlike this, of some who bound themselves with... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:15

Acts 23:15. Or ever he come near,— That is, before he come near. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:17

Acts 23:17. Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him,— Though St. Paul had an express promise from Christ for his security, Act 23:11 yet he did not neglect any proper means of safety. Comp. ch. Acts 27:24-25; Acts 27:31. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 23:1

1. Paul, earnestly beholding the council—with a look of conscious integrity and unfaltering courage, perhaps also recognizing some of his early fellow pupils. I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day—The word has an indirect reference to the "polity" or "commonwealth of Israel," of which he would signify that he had been, and was to that hour, an honest and God-fearing member. read more

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:5

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:6

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:8

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:9

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:11

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:14

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:15

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Acts 23:17

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Acts 23:1

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