Acts 16:20

and brought them to the magistrates These strategoiwere the duumviri, the two praetorsspecially appointed to preside over the administration of justice, in cases where there was no appeal to Rome, in the municipiaand coloniesof the Romans. The title in the Greek seems to indicate somewhat of a military authority, which could administer summary punishment.

being Jews On the ways in which Roman aversion was aroused and exhibited towards the Jews, for their religious exclusiveness, see Mayor, Juvenal, xiv. 96 106 notes, with the authorities there given.

do exceedingly trouble Only found here in the N. T. The kind of trouble is indicated Acts 17:6, "These that have turned the world upside down" is their description.