Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 22:5

5 As also the high priest doth bear me witness, and all the estate of the elders: from whom also I received letters unto the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring them which were there, bound unto Jerusalem, for to be punished.

Their Sanhedrim, or great Council.

Commission or Orders.

The Iews of Damascus are called brethren, because descended from the Patriarchs as well as he. And still, as ver. 1. he would overcome that stubborn people with Civility, heaping up coals of fire on their heads, Rom. 12.20. that they might be melted, and then formed after a more excellent manner.