Djela apostolska 22:22

Croatian Bible

Slušali su ga sve do te riječi, a tada podigoše glas: "Ukloni takva sa zemlje! Nije pravo da živi!"

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Away: Acts 7:54-57, Acts 21:36, Acts 25:24, Luke 23:18, John 19:15

for: Acts 25:24

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 18:26 - this fellow Psalms 83:2 - lo Isaiah 37:29 - tumult Isaiah 65:5 - Stand Jeremiah 26:9 - And all Jeremiah 26:11 - saying Daniel 6:6 - assembled together Zechariah 11:3 - for their Matthew 15:26 - It is not Matthew 20:11 - they murmured Matthew 26:61 - This Matthew 27:23 - But Mark 15:14 - And Luke 6:22 - separate Luke 14:23 - Go Luke 15:28 - he John 9:29 - as for John 18:35 - what Acts 5:33 - they Acts 10:28 - that it Acts 11:18 - hath Acts 13:16 - give Acts 16:22 - the multitude Acts 17:6 - These Acts 21:31 - as Acts 24:5 - we have Acts 26:17 - Delivering Acts 26:20 - and then Acts 26:21 - the Jews Romans 10:2 - that they 1 Corinthians 4:13 - General Galatians 5:11 - why Ephesians 4:31 - clamour 1 Thessalonians 2:16 - Forbidding

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they gave him audience unto this word..... The Ethiopic version reads, "and I heard him so speaking unto me"; as if it was to be understood of the apostle hearing Christ speaking to him concerning his mission to the Gentiles; whereas the words refer to the Jews attending quietly to the apostle, till he came to that part of his oration. They heard him patiently, and did not offer to molest him, or hinder his speaking, and being heard, till he came to mention his mission to the Gentiles: all the rest they either did not understand, or looked upon it as an idle tale, as the effect of madness and enthusiasm, at least as containing things they had nothing to do with; but when he came to speak of the Gentiles, and to pretend to a divine mission to them, this they could not bear; for nothing was more offensive, irritating, and provoking to them, than to hear of the calling of the Gentiles, whom they were for depriving of all blessings, and for engrossing all to themselves; see Romans 10:20.

and then lift up their voices; in a very loud and clamorous manner, as one man:

and said, away with such a fellow from the earth; take away his life from the earth: this they said either to the chief captain, to do it, or as encouraging one another to do it:

for it is not fit that he should live; he does not deserve to live, he is unworthy of life; it is not agreeable to the rules of justice that he should be spared; it is not convenient, and it may be of bad consequence should he be continued any longer; he may do a deal of mischief, and poison the minds of the people with bad notions, and therefore it is not expedient that he should live.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they gave him audience - They heard him patiently.

Unto this word - The word “Gentile.”

Away with such a fellow - Greek: “take such a man from the earth,” that is, “put him to death.” It is language of strong indignation and abhorrence. The reasons of their induction were, not that they supposed that the Gentiles could not be brought into covenant with God, for they would themselves compass sea and land to make one proselyte, but:

1. That they believed that Paul taught that they might be saved without conforming to the Law of Moses; and,
2. His speech implied that the Jews were more hardened than the Gentiles, and that he had a greater prospect of success in bringing them to God than he had in regard to the Jews.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 22:22. They gave him audience unto this word — Namely, that God had sent him to the Gentiles: not that they refused to preach the law to the Gentiles, and make them proselytes; for this they were fond of doing, so that our Lord says, they compassed sea and land to make a proselyte; but they understood the apostle as stating that God had rejected them, and called the Gentiles to be his peculiar people in their place; and this they could not bear.

Away with such a fellow] According to the law of Moses, he who attempted to seduce the people to any strange worship was to be stoned, Deuteronomy 13:15. The Jews wished to insinuate that the apostle was guilty of this crime, and that therefore he should be stoned, or put to death.