“Then comes the accusation against Lysias. "It was not right for him," he says, "to drag him away with great violence." … "He tried," he says, "to profane the temple," but [Tertullus] does not say how. He also magnified what concerned Paul, but see how he diminished what concerned him. "We seized him," he says, "and wo…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — CATENA ON THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES 24.7-9
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7But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
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5For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
6Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
— Acts 24:7 —
8Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.
9And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.