来自{publisher｝1And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.” (伯27:5; 徒24:16; 林前4:4; 林后1:12; 林后4:2; 林后5:11; 提后1:3; 來13:18)2And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. (王上22:24; 哀3:30; 弥5:1; 徒24:1; 林后11:20)3Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?” (申25:1; 赛30:13; 结13:10; 太23:27; 约7:51)4Those who stood by said, “Would you revile God’s high priest?” (撒上2:28; 诗106:16)5And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’” (出22:28; 徒24:1)6Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.” (太22:23; 徒2:26; 徒24:15; 徒24:21; 徒26:5; 徒26:6; 徒28:20; 腓3:5; 西1:5)7And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.8For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all. (路20:27; 林前15:12)9Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party stood up and contended sharply, “We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?” (可2:16; 路5:30; 约12:29; 徒4:5; 徒22:7; 徒22:17; 徒23:29)10And when the dissension became violent, the tribune, afraid that Paul would be torn to pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him away from among them by force and bring him into the barracks. (徒21:34; 徒22:24; 徒23:16; 徒23:32)11The following night the Lord stood by him and said, “Take courage, for as you have testified to the facts about me in Jerusalem, so you must testify also in Rome.” (撒上3:10; 徒18:9; 徒19:21; 徒22:15; 徒27:23; 提后4:17)
A Plot to Kill Paul
12When it was day, the Jews made a plot and bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. (徒23:14; 徒23:21; 徒23:30)13There were more than forty who made this conspiracy.14They went to the chief priests and elders and said, “We have strictly bound ourselves by an oath to taste no food till we have killed Paul.15Now therefore you, along with the council, give notice to the tribune to bring him down to you, as though you were going to determine his case more exactly. And we are ready to kill him before he comes near.”16Now the son of Paul’s sister heard of their ambush, so he went and entered the barracks and told Paul. (徒23:10; 徒23:32)17Paul called one of the centurions and said, “Take this young man to the tribune, for he has something to tell him.”18So he took him and brought him to the tribune and said, “Paul the prisoner called me and asked me to bring this young man to you, as he has something to say to you.” (弗3:1)19The tribune took him by the hand, and going aside asked him privately, “What is it that you have to tell me?”20And he said, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though they were going to inquire somewhat more closely about him. (徒23:14)21But do not be persuaded by them, for more than forty of their men are lying in ambush for him, who have bound themselves by an oath neither to eat nor drink till they have killed him. And now they are ready, waiting for your consent.” (徒23:12; 徒23:14)22So the tribune dismissed the young man, charging him, “Tell no one that you have informed me of these things.”
Paul Sent to Felix the Governor
23Then he called two of the centurions and said, “Get ready two hundred soldiers, with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen to go as far as Caesarea at the third hour of the night.[1]24Also provide mounts for Paul to ride and bring him safely to Felix the governor.” (路20:20; 徒23:26; 徒23:33; 徒24:1; 徒24:2; 徒24:10; 徒25:14; 徒26:30)25And he wrote a letter to this effect:26“Claudius Lysias, to his Excellency the governor Felix, greetings. (徒15:23; 徒24:1)27This man was seized by the Jews and was about to be killed by them when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman citizen. (徒21:27; 徒21:32; 徒22:25)28And desiring to know the charge for which they were accusing him, I brought him down to their council. (徒22:30)29I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment. (徒18:15; 徒23:9; 徒25:19; 徒25:25; 徒26:31; 徒28:18)30And when it was disclosed to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, ordering his accusers also to state before you what they have against him.” (徒9:24; 徒23:12; 徒23:20; 徒23:35; 徒24:19; 徒25:16)31So the soldiers, according to their instructions, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.32And on the next day they returned to the barracks, letting the horsemen go on with him. (徒23:10; 徒23:16)33When they had come to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.34On reading the letter, he asked what province he was from. And when he learned that he was from Cilicia, (徒21:39; 徒25:1)35he said, “I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive.” And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s praetorium. (太27:27; 徒23:30)