Chapter 23 can be divided into five parts – 1-10 Paul before the council; 11 the Lord with Paul; 12-24 the plot against Paul; 25-30 the letter of Claudius Lysias; 31-35 Paul sent to Felix in Cæsarea.
More later.
For now, some comments from the Matthew Henry Commentary, on verse 1:
Paul appeared here,
1. With a good courage. He was not at all put out of countenance upon his being brought before such an august assembly ... now was fulfilled in him what God promised to Ezekiel (ch. 3:8, 9): I have made thy face strong against their faces; fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks.
2. With a good conscience, and that gave him a good courage.
(1.) He had always been a man inclined to religion...
(2.) Even when he persecuted the church of God, he thought he ought to do it, and that he did God service in it. Though his conscience was misinformed, yet he acted according to the dictates of it.
(3.) He seems rather to speak of the time since his conversion...
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