Acts 24:7

7 But Lysias, the tribune, came above with great strength, and delivered him from our hands; [+Soothly Lysias, the tribune, came with great strength above, and delivered him out of our hands;]

Acts 24:7 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 24:7

But the chief captain Lysias came upon us
Suddenly, and at unawares, immediately, and with great haste, before they could execute their designs; which were not to judge Paul according to law, but to kill him, in the manner the zealots did:

and with great violence took him away out of our hands;
for he came with an army, and rescued him, ( Acts 23:27 ) Some copies add, "and sent him to thee"; and so the Syriac version reads.

Acts 24:7 In-Context

5 We have found this wicked man stirring dissension to all [the] Jews in all the world, and author of dissension of the sect of Nazarenes; [+We have found this man bearing pestilence and stirring sedition, or dissension, to all the Jews in all the world, and author of sedition of the sect of Nazarenes;]

6 and he also endeavored to defoul the temple; whom also we took, and would deem, after our law.

7 But Lysias, the tribune, came above with great strength, and delivered him from our hands; [+Soothly Lysias, the tribune, came with great strength above, and delivered him out of our hands;]

8 and commanded his accusers to come to thee [commanding his accusers to come to thee], of whom thou deeming, mayest know of all these things, of which we accuse him.

9 And Jews put to, and said, that these things had them so. [Forsooth and Jews casted to, saying that these things had them so.]