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Acts 22:25 KJV
Acts · chapter 22 · verse 25
And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?Acts 22:25 · King James Version
Acts 22:25 in context
23And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
24The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and bade that he should be examined by scourging; that he might know wherefore they cried so against him.
25And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said unto the centurion that stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?
26When the centurion heard that, he went and told the chief captain, saying, Take heed what thou doest: for this man is a Roman.
27Then the chief captain came, and said unto him, Tell me, art thou a Roman? He said, Yea.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- centurionhekatontarchēsan officer in the Roman armyG1543 →
- scourgemastizōto whip, flog, scourgeG3147 →
- thongshimasa thong of leather, a strap, in the NT of the thongs with which captives or criminals…G2438 →
- lawfuleiif, whetherG1487 →
- lawfulexestiit is lawfulG1832 →
- boundproteinōto stretch forth, stretch out, when they had stretched one out on the thongsG4385 →
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Paul was going on with this account of himself, had shown them his commission to preach among the Gentiles without any peevish reflections upon the Jews, and we may suppose designed next to show how he was afterwards, by a special direction of the Holy Ghost at Antioch, separated to this service, how tender he was of…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 22-30