They examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.
Paul, with a great deal of expense and hazard, is brought a prisoner to Rome, and when he has come nobody appears to prosecute him or lay any thing to his charge; but he must call his own cause; and here he represents it to the chief of the Jews at Rome.
Commenting on Acts 28:17-22
Who when they had examined me,.... About the things laid to his charge, had heard what his accusers had to object to him, and the defence he made for himself: would have let me go; released him from his bonds, and set him at liberty to go where he pleased: because there was no cause of death in me; no crime proved upon him, which...
Verse 18. When they had examined me, etc. , , . No cause of death. No crime worthy of death. (k) "Who"