Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 23:1

ANd Paul earnestly beholding the councel, said, Men and brethren , I have lived in all good conscience before God , until this day.

Acknowledging himself to have descended from the Patriarchs as well as they; and bespeaks, as much as he could, their favour and attention.

Not that he thought himself to have been without sin or fault; for he acknowledges and bewails his Captivity to the Law of sin, Rom. 7.23, 24. but that he was not conscious to himself of any notorious impiety (as Sacriledg, which they accused him of): Nay, he had not suffered willingly any sin to be, much less to reign in him. And as for his persecuting of the Christians, he did it not to flatter any with it, or upon any sinister design whatsoever, but thinking to serve God by it, 1 Tim. 1.13.

In the sense of Gods seeing of him, and whom St. Paul acknowledges to be the searcher and knower of the heart and conscience.

Marginal references: Chap. 24.16. 2 Tim. 1.3.