For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
They pleaded a bad cause with a bad conscience. If Paul had truly offended them, they could have brought him to law where they held all advantage of favor and authority; instead their madness proves they lacked reason itself. That God delivered him confirms Paul was His minister and His cause, and this should have spurred him forward, not to rest, but to spend all his remaining days in service to the One who saved him.
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Paul was stopped dead in his tracks by a power from heaven that no earthly authority could match, even one armed with the full weight of the chief priests behind it. A vision and a voice together seized him, not by force of men, but by divine energy, and turned the persecutor into a preacher. What resistance can stand against God?
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Commenting on Acts 26:12-23
The Asiatic Jews seized him in the temple and sought to kill him for one reason only: preaching to the Gentiles and the doctrines concerning Christ and resurrection. The Lord delivered him from their hands through the chief captain and from all their plotting with Felix and Festus alike, that he might testify to small and great, kings and subjects, rich and poor, that what he proclaimed agreed perfectly with Moses and the prophets.
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