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Forthwith (exautēs). Common in the Koiné[28928]š (exō autēs, supply hōras, hour).
He took (paralabōn). See Act 21:24, Act 21:26.
Centurions (hekatontarchas). See note on Luk 7:2 for discussion. Plural shows that Lysias the chiliarch took several hundred soldiers along (a centurion with each hundred).
Ran down (katedramen). Effective second aorist active indicative of katatrechō. From the tower of Antonia, vivid scene.
And they (hoi de). Demonstrative use of hoi. The Jewish mob who had begun the work of killing Paul (Act 21:31).
Left off beating Paul (epausanto tuptontes ton Paulon). The participle with pauomai describes what they were already doing, the supplementary participle (Robertson, Grammar, p. 1121). They stopped before the job was over because of the sudden onset of the Roman soldiers. Some ten years before in a riot at the passover the Roman guard marched down and in the panic several hundred were trampled to death.