Acts 23:20

“And he said, the Jews have agreed to desire thee, etc.] By the Jews are meant, the Jewish sanhedrim, for the young man had not only intelligence of the conspiracy, and lying in wait of the forty men or more; but also of the agreement which the sanhedrim at the motion of these men were come into, to make the following request to the chief captain; which seems to confirm the above conjecture, that this young man might be a student under the president of the council, or one of the doctors, whereby he came at the knowledge of these things: that thou wouldst bring down Paul tomorrow into the council, etc. (See Gill on “<442315>Acts 23:15”).”

“And he said ... - In what way this young man had received intelligence of this, we can only conjecture. It is not improbable that he was a student under some one of the Jewish teachers, and that he might have learned it of him. It is not at all probable that the purpose of the 40 men would be very closely kept. Indeed, it is evident that they were not themselves very anxious about concealing their oath, as they mentioned it freely to the chief priests and elders, Acts 23:14. return to 'Top of Page'”

“The Jews: Act 23:12 as: Act 23:15; Psa 12:2; Dan 6:5-12 Acts 23:21”