John Chrysostom

"So the tribune then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast showed these things to me." Moreover he gives his orders to the centurions only, at the time when the thing was to be done: and so Paul is sent into Caesarea, that there too he might discourse in a greater theatre and before a more splendid audience: that so the Jews may not be able to say, "If we had seen Paul, we would have believed-if we had heard him teaching." Therefore this excuse too is cut off from them.

Homily on Acts 49 ↗