John Gill - Exposition
John Gill
Who immediately took soldiers and centurions,.... A very large number of soldiers, for they are called an army, in Acts 23:27 with a sufficient number of officers called centurions, who were each of them over an hundred men, to command them, and put them in order: and ran down unto them: from the tower to the temple, the outer part of it; perhaps the mountain of the house, where they had dragged...