Matthew Poole and continuators on Acts 28:19

19 But when the Jews spake against it , I was constrained to appeal unto Cesar▪ not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.

The Iews used all their Oratory and Interest against Paul, both before Felix and Festus. And had it been in Felix's power (which after Paul's Appeal it was not), he would have sacrificed Paul to the malice of the Iews; and by that means got their favour, whom he had so incensed against him.

Paul did not so much want matter, as mind to accuse the Iews. And he declares, that whatsoever he had suffered, his intentions were not to calumniate them, but to vindicate himself.

Marginal references: Chap. 25.11.