[80] In chapter XII. of this work, section 1, notice has already been taken, of a similar operation as having been performed by Paul himself: of the improvement made in _that_ case, the subject was the number of the witnesses: according to the real Apostle, who was one of the company, the number, as we have seen, was eleven, and a few more: this number, whatever it was, the self-constituted Apostle, who knew nothing about the matter, took in hand, and multiplied till he had raised it to five hundred. Thus, with or without concert, with like effect,--and it is almost needless to say, with the same object, and from the same inducement,--may be seen the master and the journeyman, working on different occasions, but with well-matched industry, at the manufacturing of evidence. Add now together the results of the two operations, and note the aggregate. Number of witnesses, according to Luke, say,--for the sake of round numbers,--twenty; though there seems little reason to suppose it so great: addition made to it by Paul, 480. Number of days,--during which, as above, they continued seeing and hearing what they saw and heard,--according to Saint Luke, but one: according to Paul's attendant, 40. Multiply together the two improvements, that is to say, the 480 by the 40, you have 19,200 for the sum total of probative force, added by the arguments of the author of the Acts to the amount of the original quantity, as reported by Saint Luke. CHAPTER XV. _Law Report.--Jews versus Paul: Trials five, with Observations._ SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION. On the occasion of what passed at the Temple, the report of a great law-case,--to speak in modern and English language,--the case of _The Jews against Paul_, was begun. The judicatory before which he underwent that trial,--partly before the Jewish multitude, partly before the Roman chief by whom he was rescued,--was a sort of mixed and extempore judicatory, something betwixt a legal and an illegal one: for, as has been seen in the case of Saint Stephen, and as may be seen in the case of the woman taken in adultery, and moreover, in the body of the law itself, a sort of mob-law might, not altogether without ground, be stated as forming part and parcel of the law of Moses. To this sort of irregular trial, succeeded, before the definite judgment was pronounced, no fewer than four others, each of them before a tribunal, as regular as any the most zealous supporter of what is called legitimacy could desire. In execution of this definitive judgment it was, that Paul was sent, on that half-forced, half-voluntary expedition of his, to Rome: at which place, on his arrival at that capital, the Acts history closes. Of the reports of these several trials, as given in the Acts,--follows a summary view, accompanied with a few remarks for elucidation. SECTION 2. TRIAL I. PLACE, JERUSALEM TEMPLE.--JUDICATORY, THE MIXED MULTITUDE.--_Acts_ 22:1 to 21.