SEV Biblia, Chapter 26:10
lo cual tambin hice en Jerusaln, y yo encerr en crceles a muchos de los santos, recibida potestad de los príncipes de los sacerdotes; y cuando los mataron, yo di mi voto.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 26:10
Verse 10. Many of the saints] From what is said in this verse, it seems that Paul, before his conversion, was invested with much power: he imprisoned the Christians; punished many in various synagogues; compelled them to blaspheme-to renounce, and, perhaps, to execrate Christ, in order to save their lives; and gave his voice, exerted all his influence and authority, against them, in order that they might be put to death; and from this it would seem that there were other persons put to death besides St. Stephen, though their names are not mentioned.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. Which thing I also did in Jerusalem , etc.] The metropolis of Judea, where he had had his education, and was well known; here he consented to the death of Stephen, and held the clothes of the witnesses while they stoned him; and here he haled men and women out of their houses, and committed them to prison, and made havoc of the church of Christ, and destroyed the faith, and those that professed it, as much as in him lay. And many of the saints I shut up in prison ; at Jerusalem; (see Acts 8:3). having received authority from the chief priests ; to take them up, and imprison them. And when they were put to death ; for it seems there were more than Stephen put to death, though we have no account of them: I gave my voice against them ; not that he sat in council, or was a member of the Jewish sanhedrim, and voted for the execution of the Christians, but he was pleased with the sentence they passed, and approved of it; or he joined the zealots, who, without any form of law, seized on the Christians, and put them to death wherever they found them; and this he assented to, and encouraged: some render the words, I carried the sentence; as the Vulgate Latin version; that is, the sentence of condemnation, which the Jewish sanhedrim passed upon the disciples and followers of Christ: this Saul took, and carried, it may be, both to the Roman governor, to be signed by him, and to the officers to put it in execution; so industrious and forward was he in persecuting the saints.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-11 - Christianity teaches us to give a reason of the hope that is in us, an also to give honour to whom honour is due, without flattery or fear of man. Agrippa was well versed in the Scriptures of the Old Testament therefore could the better judge as to the controversy about Jesu being the Messiah. Surely ministers may expect, when they preach the faith of Christ, to be heard patiently. Paul professes that he stil kept to all the good in which he was first educated and trained up. Se here what his religion was. He was a moralist, a man of virtue, and ha not learned the arts of the crafty, covetous Pharisees; he was no chargeable with any open vice and profaneness. He was sound in the faith. He always had a holy regard for the ancient promise made of God unto the fathers, and built his hope upon it. The apostle knew very well that all this would not justify him before God, yet he knew it wa for his reputation among the Jews, and an argument that he was not suc a man as they represented him to be. Though he counted this but loss that he might win Christ, yet he mentioned it when it might serve to honour Christ. See here what Paul's religion is; he has not such zea for the ceremonial law as he had in his youth; the sacrifices an offerings appointed by that, are done away by the great Sacrifice whic they typified. Of the ceremonial cleansings he makes no conscience, an thinks the Levitical priesthood is done away in the priesthood of Christ; but, as to the main principles of his religion, he is a zealous as ever. Christ and heaven, are the two great doctrines of the gospel; that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. These are the matter of the promise made unto the fathers. The temple service, or continual course of religious duties, day and night was kept up as the profession of faith in the promise of eternal life and in expectation of it. The prospect of eternal life should engage u to be diligent and stedfast in all religious exercises. Yet the Sadducees hated Paul for preaching the resurrection; and the other Jew joined them, because he testified that Jesus was risen, and was the promised Redeemer of Israel. Many things are thought to be beyon belief, only because the infinite nature and perfections of Him tha has revealed, performed, or promised them, are overlooked. Pau acknowledged, that while he continued a Pharisee, he was a bitter enem to Christianity. This was his character and manner of life in the beginning of his time; and there was every thing to hinder his being Christian. Those who have been most strict in their conduct befor conversion, will afterwards see abundant reason for humblin themselves, even on account of things which they then thought ought to have been done.
Greek Textus Receptus
ο 3739 R-ASN και 2532 CONJ εποιησα 4160 5656 V-AAI-1S εν 1722 PREP ιεροσολυμοις 2414 N-DPN και 2532 CONJ πολλους 4183 A-APM των 3588 T-GPM αγιων 40 A-GPM εγω 1473 P-1NS φυλακαις 5438 N-DPF κατεκλεισα 2623 5656 V-AAI-1S την 3588 T-ASF παρα 3844 PREP των 3588 T-GPM αρχιερεων 749 N-GPM εξουσιαν 1849 N-ASF λαβων 2983 5631 V-2AAP-NSM αναιρουμενων 337 5746 V-PPP-GPM τε 5037 PRT αυτων 846 P-GPM κατηνεγκα 2702 5656 V-AAI-1S ψηφον 5586 N-ASF
Vincent's NT Word Studies
10. Saints (twn agiwn). Lit., the holy ones. Paul did not call the Christians by this name when addressing the Jews, for this would have enraged them; but before Agrippa he uses the word without fear of giving offense. On this word agiov, holy, which occurs over two hundred times in the New Testament, it is to be noted how the writers of the Greek scriptures, both in the New Testament and, what is more remarkable, in the Septuagint, bring it out from the background in which it was left by classical writers, and give preference to it over words which, in pagan usage, represented conceptions of mere externality in religion. Even in the Old Testament, where externality is emphasized, agiov is the standard word for holy. 28 Gave my voice (kathnegka yhfon). Lit., laid down my vote. See on counteth, Luke xiv. 28. Some suppose that Paul here refers to casting his vote as a member of the Sanhedrim; in which case he must have been married and the father of a family. But this there is no reason for believing (compare 1 Cor. vii. 7, 8); and the phrase may be taken as expressing merely moral assent and approval.
Robertson's NT Word Studies
26:10 {I both shut up many} (pollous te katekleisa). Effective aorist active of katakleiw, old word to shut down like a trap door, in N.T. only here and #Lu 3:20. Double use of te (both--and). {Having received authority from the chief priests} (ten para twn arcierewn exousian labwn). "The authority," he says. Paul was the official persecutor of the saints under the direction of the Sanhedrin. He mentions "chief priests" (Sadducees), though a Pharisee himself. Both parties were co-operating against the saints. {And when they were put to death} (anairoumenwn te autwn). Genitive absolute with present passive participle of anairew. {I gave my vote against them} (katenegka yefon). "I cast down my pebble" (a black one). The ancient Greeks used white pebbles for acquittal (#Re 2:17), black ones for condemnation as here (the only two uses of the word in the N.T.). Paul's phrase (not found elsewhere) is more vivid than the usual katayefizw for voting. They literally cast the pebbles into the urn. Cf. sumyefizw in #Ac 19:19, sugkatayefizo in #Ac 1:26. If Paul's language is taken literally here, he was a member of the Sanhedrin and so married when he led the persecution. That is quite possible, though he was not married when he wrote #1Co 7:7f., but a widower. It is possible to take the language figuratively for approval, but not so natural.
