Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
hath gone about—attempted.
to profane the temple—the third charge; and entirely false.
we . . . would have judged according to our law.
a pestilent fellow—a plague, or pest.
and a mover of sedition among all the Jews—by exciting disturbances among them.
throughout the world—(See on Luke 2:1). This was the first charge; and true only in the sense explained on Acts 16:20.
a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes—the second charge; and true enough.
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