Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
PAUL'S DEFENSE BEFORE THE SAMHEDRIM DIVIDES THE RIVAL FACTIONS, FROM WHOSE VIOLENCE THE COMMANDANT HAS THE APOSTLE REMOVED INTO THE FORTRESS. (Acts 23:1-10)
Paul, earnestly beholding the council—with a look of conscious integrity and unfaltering courage, perhaps also recognizing some of his early fellow pupils.
I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day—The word has an indirect reference to the "polity" or "commonwealth of Israel," of which he would signify that he had been, and was to that hour, an honest and God-fearing member.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Acts 23:1:
Exodus 22:28
Acts 23:1
Acts 24:11
Acts 24:16
1 Timothy 1:5
2 Timothy 1:3
Hebrews 13:18
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