Text -- Acts 22:23 (NET)

22:23 While they were screaming and throwing off their cloaks and tossing dust in the air,

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Act 22:23

¹ tn The participle κραυγαζόντων (kraugazontwn) has been translated temporally.

² tn Or “outer garments.”

sn Their cloaks. The outer garment, or cloak, was taken off and laid aside to leave the arms free (perhaps in this case as preparation for throwing stones).

³ sn The crowd’s act of tossing dust in the air indicated they had heard something disturbing and offensive. This may have been a symbolic gesture, indicating Paul’s words deserved to be thrown to the wind, or it may have simply resulted from the fact they had nothing else to throw at him at the moment.