22 [a]And they heard him unto this word, but then they lifted up their voices, and said, Away with such a fellow from the earth: for it is not meet that he should live.

23 And as they [b]cried and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

24 [c]The chief captain commanded him to be led into the castle, and bade that he should be scourged, and examined, that he might know wherefore they cried so on him.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 22:22 Stout and stubborn pride will neither itself embrace the truth, neither suffer others to receive it.
  2. Acts 22:23 The description of a seditious hurly-burly, and of an harebrained and mad multitude.
  3. Acts 22:24 The wisdom of the flesh doth not consider what is just, but what is profitable, and therewithall measure the profit, according as it appeareth presently.

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