And being overcome by his reasons and power of speaking, they betook themselves to other viler arts, and hired some men to accuse him falsely, and to make complaint to the sanhedrim, that they had heard him speak dishonourably of the Jewish religion. a continue in, προκαταπλημιν τῇ. a they prayed, and laid, προκαταπλημιν αὐτοῦ. [i] lest haply ye] These words μήποτε, &c., lest ye be found fighters against God, are in the sense to be connected with ἑάσατε αὐτούς, let them alone, ver. 37. So that all that is betwixt must be read as in parenthesis.