I found that the accusation involved questions about their own law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.
Lysias acquits Paul by Roman law, and rightly so on those charges. But mark what he cannot see: among God's people, corrupting sound doctrine with false opinion deserves punishment no less than common crime. The Romans guarded their own superstitions jealously, yet they cared nothing for God's law and left the Jews free to police their own religion. This is why the chief captain thinks doctrinal questions harmless. But God judges differently, He punishes violation of His worship more sharply than any injury done between men.
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Malice that cannot gain its end by tumult or law will turn to the knife. Forty men bound themselves by oath to murder Paul, their hearts filled with hatred because he preached to Gentiles. Satan had stirred them in the night; by daylight they were ready to kill. But Christ appeared to Paul in darkness to shield him, and God was awake before His enemies rose.
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Commenting on Acts 23:12-35
Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul,.... Out of the castle, and put him upon a beast, as the chief captain had ordered the centurions, and they had directed the soldiers to do: and brought him by night to Antipatris: they set out from Jerusalem at the third hour, or about nine o'clock at night, and travelled all night, and by break...