Acts 23:15

Now therefore ye with the council, &c. Rev. Ver. "do ye," to mark more clearly the imperative. The chief priests and elders, of the Sadducees" party, were to use their influence in the council, that a request might proceed from the whole body of the Sanhedrin, that Paul should be again brought before them by the chief captain. From what we read of the Sadducees, in the N. T. and Josephus, it is easy to believe that they would be in a majority.

that he bring him down i.e. from the tower of Antonia to the place where the Sanhedrin held its meetings.

unto you to morrow The oldest MSS. omit the last word. It is found in Acts 23:20 below, and may have been early inserted here to make that verbal accord of the desire for which the received text of the Acts of the Apostles furnishes so many illustrations.

as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him Rev. Ver."as though ye would judge of his case more exactly," which is more in accordance with the classical meaning of the verb.

we … are ready to kill him So that the suspicion of complicity in the crime would not fall upon the chief priests and elders. Their intention would appear to have been to give St Paul a fair hearing, and the murder would seem to be the work of some fanatics unconnected with the Council.