On the next day, because he would have known the certainty of why he was accused of the Jews, he released him, and commanded the chief priests and all their council to appear, and brought Paul down, and set him before them.
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
He discourses not now to the multitude, nor to the people.
This he should have done at the outset. He brought him in, loosed. This above all the Jews would not know what to make of. And Paul, it says, earnestly beholding them. It shows his boldness, and how it awed them (τὸ ἐντρεπτικόν).