Acts 23:29

29 I perceived him to be accused about questions of their law, but there was nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

Acts 23:29 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 23:29

Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law,
&c.] As about the resurrection of the dead, and a future state, which some in the council denied, and some asserted, which with this heathen man were idle and foolish questions; or about the defiling of the temple, and speaking contemptibly of the law of Moses, the people of the Jews, and the holy place, which was the cry of the populace against him, and were things the captain knew little of:

but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death, or of bonds:
by the laws of the Romans; and yet he himself had bound him with two chains at the first taking of him, and afterwards ordered him to be bound with thongs, and scourged, of which he says nothing, being convinced of his error, and willing to hide it; however, he bears a full testimony to the innocence of the apostle.

Acts 23:29 In-Context

27 This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be killed by them. Then came I with an army and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

28 And desiring to know the cause whereof they accused him, I brought him forth into their council.

29 I perceived him to be accused about questions of their law, but there was nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

30 And when it was told me how the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him straightway to thee, and gave a command to his accusers also to speak before thee what they have against him. Farewell."

31 Then the soldiers took Paul, as it was commanded them, and brought him by night to Antipatris.