Then they all grabbed Sosthenes. (Sosthenes was \{now\} the leader of the synagogue. {\cf2\super [367]})They beat Sosthenes before the court. But this did not bother Gallio.
The argument became a fight. The commander was afraid that the Jews would tear Paul to pieces. So the commander told the soldiers to go down and take Paul away from these Jews and to put him in the army building.