Acts 24:8

Commanding his accusers. Lysias had not so commanded until it had become evident that the Jews were plotting to murder Paul (see on ch. 23:30).

By examining of whom. That is, Paul, as the singular form of the Greek word for “whom” makes clear. The antecedent obviously cannot be Lysias of v. 7, who had already declared himself in favor of releasing Paul (ch. 23:29) and had previously made evident his purpose to protect Paul from harm (see chs. 21:31-40; 22:24; 23:23-31). Instead, the antecedent is the word “man” (Paul) of v. 5, as it is of the “who” and “whom” of v. 6. A careful examination of the pronouns of vs. 6-8 tends to support the conclusion that a portion of these verses was not in the original text of Acts (see on v. 6).