Atti 23:18

18 Egli adunque, presolo, lo menò al capitano, e disse: Paolo, quel prigione, mi ha chiamato, e mi ha pregato ch’io ti meni questo giovane, il quale ha alcuna cosa da dirti.

Atti 23:18 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 23:18

So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain
Immediately, without any more to do, without curiously inquiring into the thing, or examining the young man about it; which showed him to be a man of a good disposition, and ready to do a kind office, even to a prisoner:

and said, Paul the prisoner called me to him;
either vocally or by some gesture, beckoned him to him:

and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something
to say unto thee;
in which may be observed the apostle's manner of address to the centurion, on this occasion; it was by way of entreaty; he asked it as a favour of him, to introduce his nephew to the chief captain; and the honour and modesty of the centurion, he did not seek by any methods to get the secret out, either of Paul or the young man; but readily undertakes the affair, honourably performs it, acquaints the captain with the circumstances of it, tells him the young man had something to say to him, he could not tell what, and then departs.

Atti 23:18 In-Context

16 Ma il figliuolo della sorella di Paolo, udite queste insidie, venne; ed entrato nella rocca, rapportò il fatto a Paolo.

17 E Paolo, chiamato a sè uno de’ centurioni, disse: Mena questo giovane al capitano, perciocchè egli ha alcuna cosa da rapportargli.

18 Egli adunque, presolo, lo menò al capitano, e disse: Paolo, quel prigione, mi ha chiamato, e mi ha pregato ch’io ti meni questo giovane, il quale ha alcuna cosa da dirti.

19 E il capitano, presolo per la mano, e ritrattosi in disparte, lo domandò: Che cosa hai da rapportarmi

20 Ed egli disse: I Giudei si son convenuti insieme di pregarti che domani tu meni giù Paolo nel concistoro, come per informarsi più appieno del fatto suo.