Acts 24:18

_ _ Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult - not polluting it by my own presence, and neither gathering a crowd nor raising a stir....

10-21 Paul gives a just account of himself, which clears him from crime, and likewise shows the true reason of the violence against him. Let us never be driven from any good way by its having an ill name. It is very comfortable, in worshipping God, to look to him as the God of our fathers, and to set up no other rule of faith or practice but the Scriptures. This shows there will be a resurrection to a final judgment. Prophets and their doctrines were to be tried by their fruits. Paul's aim was to have a conscience void of offence. His care and endeavour was to abstain from many things, and to abound in the exercises of religion at all times; both towards God. and towards man. If blamed for being more earnest in the things of God than our neighbours, what is our reply? Do we shrink from the accusation? How many in the world would rather be accused of any weakness, nay, even of wickedness...

Verse Acts 24:18. _FOUND ME PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE_] And the Jews of Asia, who stirred up the persecution against me in Jerusalem, found me purified in the temple, regularly performing the religious vow into which I had entered; giving no cause for suspicion; for I made no _tumult_, nor had I any _number of people_ with me, by whom I could have accomplished any seditious purpose....

CERTAIN JEWS FROM ASIA - Acts 21:27. FOUND ME PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE - Acts 21:26. They found me engaged in the sacred service of completing the observance of my vow. NEITHER WITH MULTITUDE - Not having introduced a multitude with me - in a quiet and peaceful manner....

EXPOSITION ACTS 24:1 _The high priest Ananias came down _for _Ananias the high priest descended, _A.V.; _certain elders _for _the elders, _A.V. and T.R.; _an orator, one Tertullus _for _a certain orator named Tertullus, _A.V.; _and they _for _who, _A.V. AFTER FIVE DAYS. Of which the first was the day on which St. Paul left Jerusalem, and the fifth that on which Ananias and his companions appeared before Felix (see Acts 24:11, note). TERTULLUS. A Latin name, formed from _Tertius, _as Lucullus from _Lucius_, Catullus from _Catius, _etc. INFORMED; ἐμφανίζω_, _in the sense of "laying an information" before a magistrate, only occurs elsewhere in...

WHEREUPON,.... Or "among which"; while the apostle was busy about the offerings of the Nazarites: CERTAIN JEWS FROM ASIA FOUND ME PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE; and therefore could not be said to profane it; this he observes in answer to the charge of his attempting to profane it, and acquaints the governor how that was; as that having joined himself to four men that had a vow upon them, and being in the temple purifying himself with them, certain Jews that came from Ephesus, in Asia, who knew him there, and had a pique against him, found him here; not profaning the temple, as they pretended, but acting according to the worship and service of it; and that, NEITHER WITH A MULTITUDE; for there were but four men with him; NOR WITH TUMULT; making any noise and riot, or stirring up persons to sedition and rebellion....

CHAPTER 23 _ 1. Paul before the Sanhedrin (Acts 23:1)._ 2. The vision of the Lord (Acts 23:11). 3. The Conspiracy against Paul (Acts 23:12). 4. Paul taken to Caesarea (Acts 23:23). And now we find him addressing the Sanhedrin. For the last time the Jewish council is mentioned in this book. Three times before the Sanhedrin had been called together in connection with those who believed in the Lord Jesus (Acts 4:5; Acts 5:21;...

PAUL'S SPEECH. Paul does not speak till the procurator invites him to do so, according to the necessary order of all judicial proceedings. His speech is not quite so fine as that of Tertullus, yet while strictly to the point, as was necessary in the circumstances, it is full of elegant turns which have to some extent confused the scribes, so that the text is at some points uncertain. Felix has been for many years procurator; no further compliment is paid him. The twelve days of Acts 24:11 are apparently the sum of the seven days of Acts 21:27, and the five of Acts 24:1. But a few more must be added (Acts 21:17;...

A FLATTERING SPEECH AND A FALSE CHARGE (Acts 24:1-9)...

WHEREUPON. In (Greek. _en)_ which, i.e. while engaged in the offerings. PURIFIED. Greek. _hagnizo._ See note on Acts 21:24; Acts 21:26. NEITHER. not. Greek. _ou._ App-105. MULTITUDE. crowd. Greek. _ochlos_, as in Acts 24:12. NOR. Greek. _oude._ TUMULT. Same as "uproar", Acts 20:1. A Latin MS. of the thirteenth century adds "And they laid hands on me, crying, Away with our enemy"....