Acts 22:30 -23:35
The night after the stormy meeting described in the early portion of this chapter, Jesus appeared to Paul and bade him be of good cheer, promising him that as he had that day borne such faithful testimony in Jerusalem, he should bear witness also to Rome. This assured Paul that his life was safe amid all the plots of his enemies.
It is strange how bitter human hate may grow and to what depths of wickedness and treachery men may descend under the influence of passion. The records of persecution have many times since told of similar plots for the destruction of holy men and women whose only crime was that they worshipped God according to the dictates of their own conscience.
A fouler murder could not have been planned that these men plotted. Yet their chief priests and elder, the representatives of religion about the temple, were ready to help carry out this nefarious conspiracy. They professed to want to look into the case of Paul more carefully. We may not be the objects of any such human conspiracy in our Christian life, but there are unseen enemies who are always plotting our destruction, and we need to fear these. There are many assassinations of souls of which no record is made in this world’s chronicles.
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