Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 24:20

20 Or else let these same here say, if they had found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,

St. Paul is willing to allow the present Iews Testimony about such things as they could know, having themselves heard and seen them; which was what passed in the Council when Paul was brought before it, Chap. 23.1, 9. The sense of a Deity was more quick upon men; and they might then be trusted under the security of an Oath.