SEV Biblia, Chapter 22:30
Y al día siguiente, queriendo saber de cierto la causa por qu era acusado de los judíos, le solt de las prisiones, y mand venir a los príncipes de los sacerdotes, y a todo su concilio; y sacando a Pablo, le present delante de ellos.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 22:30
Verse 30. He-commanded-all their council to appear] Instead of elqein, to come, which we translate, to appear, sunelqein, to assemble, or meet together, is the reading of ACE, nearly twenty others, the AEthiopic, Arabic, Vulgate, Chrysostom, and Theophylact: this reading Griesbach has received into the text; and it is most probably the true one: as the chief captain wished to know the certainty of the matter, he desired the Jewish council, or Sanhedrin, to assemble, and examine the business thoroughly, that he might know of what the apostle was accused; as the law would not permit him to proceed against a Roman in any judicial way, but on the clearest evidence; and, as he understood that the cause of their enmity was something that concerned their religion, he considered the Sanhedrin to be the most proper judge, and therefore commanded them to assemble; and there is no doubt that he himself, and a sufficient number of soldiers, took care to attend, as the person of Paul could not be safe in the hands of persons so prejudiced, unprincipled, and enraged. This chapter should end with the twenty-ninth verse, and the following should begin with the thirtieth; this is the most natural division, and is followed by some of the most correct editions of the original text.
1. IN his address to the council, Paul asserts that he is a Jew, born of and among Jews; and that he had a regular Jewish education; and he takes care to observe that he had early imbibed all the prejudices peculiar to his countrymen, and had given the fullest proof of this in his persecution of the Christians. Thus, his assertions, concerning the unprofitableness of the legal ceremonies, could neither be attributed to ignorance nor indifference.
Had a Gentile, no matter how learned or eminent, taught thus, his whole teaching would have been attributed to ignorance, prejudice, and envy.
God, therefore, in his endless mercy, made use of a most eminent, learned, and bigoted Jew, to demonstrate the nullity of the whole Jewish system, and show the necessity of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
2. At the close of this chapter, Dr. Dodd has the following judicious remark:-"As unrighteous as it was in the Roman officer, on this popular clamour, to attempt putting this holy apostle to the torture, so reasonable was St. Paul's plea, as a Roman citizen, to decline that suffering. It is a prudence worthy the imitation of the bravest of men, not to throw themselves into unnecessary difficulties. True courage widely differs from rash and heedless temerity; nor are we under any obligation, as Christians, to give up our civil privileges, which ought to be esteemed as the gifts of God, to every insolent and turbulent invader. In a thousand circumstances, gratitude to God, and duty to men, will oblige us to insist upon them; and a generous concern for those who may come after us should engage us to labour to transmit them to posterity improved rather than impaired." This should be an article in the creed of every genuine Briton.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 30. On the morrow , etc.] The next day; so that Paul was kept in the castle all night: because he would have known the certainty wherefore he was accused of the Jews; which, as yet, he could not come at, some saying one thing, and some another; and which he ought to have known before he had bound him, and ordered him to be scourged: he loosed him from his bands not from his being bound with thongs to the pillar, that he had been loosed from before, but from the two chains with which he was bound, and held by two soldiers; (see Acts 21:33,35). and commanded the chief priests, and all the council to appear , the whole Jewish sanhedrim, which was now very much under the direction and influence of the Romans: and this he the rather did, because, though he could not come at the certainty of the charge and accusation, he perceived it was a matter of religion, and so belonged to them to examine and judge of: and brought Paul down ; from the Castle of Antonia, into the temple, and to the place where the sanhedrim sat, which formerly was in the chamber Gazith, but of late years it had removed from place to place, and indeed from Jerusalem itself, and was now at Jabneh; only this was the time of Pentecost, and so the chief priests and sanhedrim were at Jerusalem on that account: and set him before them ; or among them; in the midst of them, to answer to what charges should be brought against him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 22-30 - The Jews listened to Paul's account of his conversion, but the mentio of his being sent to the Gentiles, was so contrary to all their national prejudices, that they would hear no more. Their franti conduct astonished the Roman officer, who supposed that Paul must have committed some great crime. Paul pleaded his privilege as a Roma citizen, by which he was exempted from all trials and punishments whic might force him to confess himself guilty. The manner of his speakin plainly shows what holy security and serenity of mind he enjoyed. A Paul was a Jew, in low circumstances, the Roman officer questioned ho he obtained so valuable a distinction; but the apostle told him he wa free born. Let us value that freedom to which all the children of God are born; which no sum of money, however large, can purchase for thos who remain unregenerate. This at once put a stop to his trouble. Thu many are kept from evil practices by the fear of man, who would not be held back from them by the fear of God. The apostle asks, simply, Is i lawful? He knew that the God whom he served would support him under all sufferings for his name's sake. But if it were not lawful, the apostle's religion directed him, if possible, to avoid it. He neve shrunk from a cross which his Divine Master laid upon his onward road and he never stept aside out of that road to take one up __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
τη 3588 T-DSF δε 1161 CONJ επαυριον 1887 ADV βουλομενος 1014 5740 V-PNP-NSM γνωναι 1097 5629 V-2AAN το 3588 T-ASN ασφαλες 804 A-ASN το 3588 T-ASN τι 5101 I-ASN κατηγορειται 2723 5743 V-PPI-3S παρα 3844 PREP των 3588 T-GPM ιουδαιων 2453 A-GPM ελυσεν 3089 5656 V-AAI-3S αυτον 846 P-ASM απο 575 PREP των 3588 T-GPM δεσμων 1199 N-GPM και 2532 CONJ εκελευσεν 2753 5656 V-AAI-3S ελθειν 2064 5629 V-2AAN τους 3588 T-APM αρχιερεις 749 N-APM και 2532 CONJ ολον 3650 A-ASN το 3588 T-ASN συνεδριον 4892 N-ASN αυτων 846 P-GPM και 2532 CONJ καταγαγων 2609 5631 V-2AAP-NSM τον 3588 T-ASM παυλον 3972 N-ASM εστησεν 2476 5656 V-AAI-3S εις 1519 PREP αυτους 846 P-APM
Vincent's NT Word Studies
30. Brought Paul down. To the meeting-place of the Sanhedrim: probably not their usual place of assembly, which lay within the wall of partition, which Lysias and his soldiers would not have been allowed to pass.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
22:30 {To know the certainty} (gnwnai to asfales). Same idiom in #21:34 which see. {Wherefore he was accused} (to ti kategoreitai). Epexegetical after to asfales. Note article (accusative case) with the indirect question here as in #Lu 22:1,23,24 (which see), a neat idiom in the Greek. {Commanded} (ekeleusen). So the Sanhedrin had to meet, but in the Tower of Antonia, for he brought Paul down (katagagwn, second aorist active participle of katagw). {Set him} (estesen). First aorist active (transitive) indicative of histemi, not the intransitive second aorist este. Lysias is determined to find out the truth about Paul, more puzzled than ever by the important discovery that he has a Roman citizen on his hands in this strange prisoner.
