NEW TESTAMENT

Acts 26:10

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I also did this in Jerusalem. I both shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests; and when they were put to death I gave my vote against them.

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Verse 10. I brought the sentence. [2] That is, from those who in the great council were judges of life and death, to those officers who were to put the sentence in execution. This seems to be the sense of these words, rather than, I voted, or gave my voice in condemning them; for we have no grounds to think Saint Paul was one of the council, or of the judges. Witham.

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