Acts 24:5-9
5 For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. 6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we seized him, and wanted to judge him according to our law. 7 But the commander Lysias came by and with great violence took him out of our hands, 8 commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.” 9 And the Jews also assented, maintaining that these things were so.
The orator lawyer spoke for the Jews before the Roman court of how Paul needed to be judged by religious law, but the Roman commander Lysias “violently” took him out of their hands. He left out the part about their own violent actions to kill Paul, however. So they now accused him to stop the gospel legally, they thought. These imagined that disagreements over the law and the gospel could only be solved with Crusade-like actions instead of reason. So many still oppose the gospel with hostility.
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