Acts 22:23

23 And [while] they were screaming and throwing off [their] cloaks and throwing dust into the air,

Acts 22:23 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 22:23

And as they cried out
In this furious manner:

and cast off their clothes;
either like madmen, that knew not what they did, or in order to stone him; see ( Acts 7:57 Acts 7:58 ) .

and threw dust into the air
either with their hands, or by striking the earth, and scraping it with their feet, through indignation and wrath, like persons possessed, or mad.

Acts 22:23 In-Context

21 And he said to me, 'Go, because I will send you far away to the Gentiles!'"

22 Now they were listening to him until this word, and they raised their voices, saying, "Away with such a man from the earth! For it is not fitting [for] him to live!"

23 And [while] they were screaming and throwing off [their] cloaks and throwing dust into the air,

24 the military tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks, saying he was to be examined with a lash so that he could find out for what reason they were crying out against him in this way.

25 But when they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing there, "Is it permitted for you to flog a man [who is] a Roman citizen and uncondemned?"

Footnotes

• [a] *Here "[while]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were screaming")
• [b] *Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun