Acts 23:12-25:22

Here two schemes of jurisprudence overlap and compete with one another. One is the Sanhedrin, a council of seventy-one Jewish sages who constituted the supreme court and legislative body in Judea during the Roman period. Another is the Roman Empire's system of laws, courts, and justice. Both are corrupt. Evidence of their corruption can be seen in the ways that Paul the Apostle is treated.

God, when will justice "roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream?" (Amos 5:24)