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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,
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 v...
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 hav...
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 ...
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 whi...
ACTS 24:22 F. FELIX ADJOURNS THE CASE. The clause having more exact knowledge concerning the Way may be due to the editor, who tends to exhibit Roman officials as favourable to the cause (Preuschen)....
When the governor had given him the sign to speak, Paul answered, "In the knowledge that you for many years have been a judge of this people, I confidently offer my defence of my case, for you can asc...
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. _...
_Whereupon_ According to the best MSS. the relative here, by its gender, must be referred to the "offerings" which have just been named. Read (with _Rev. Ver._) AMIDST WHICH, i.e. engaged in offering...
ἘΝ ΑἾΣ, _amidst which_, i.e. engaged in offering these oblations. ΕὟΡΌΝ ΜΕ ἩΓΝΙΣΜΈΝΟΝ, _they found me purified_, i.e. abstaining from all things forbidden by the Law of the Nazirites (see Numbers 6:3...
ST PAUL’S ANSWER TO THE CHARGE...
_PAUL DEFENDED HIMSELF BEFORE FELIX ACTS 24:10-18:_ Felix had judged the Jewish nation for many years. He had been governor somewhere between ten and thirteen years. If the charge was true that Paul w...
ΈΝ ΑΊΣ (G1722; G3739) _pl._ с которым, относится к подношению из ст. 17. ΕΎΡΟΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 24:5. ΉΓΝΙΣΜΈΝΟΝ _perf. pass. part. (adj.) от_ ΆΓΝΊΖΩ (G48) освящать, посвящать, очищать. _Pe...
NEITHER WITH MULTITUDE, NOR WITH TUMULT:— If the apostle had disturbed other people in their religious worship, whether Jews or Gentiles, invaded their civil rights, or made any tumult, sedition, or i...
b. Paul's trial before Felix the governor. Acts 24:1-22. Acts 24:1 And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with certain elders, and with an orator, one Tertullus; and they informed th...
See notes on verse 10...
_ _ 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 multitud...
17 To a man like Felix the accusation that Paul belonged to the sect of the Nazarenes would have little in it to incriminate him. And Paul, with marvelous wisdom, answers all that might be said agains...
ST. PAUL BEFORE FELIX 1-27. St Paul and Felix. 1. Tertullus] in spite of his Roman name may have been a Greek or even a Jew (cp.'our Law,' AV Acts 24:6)....
ST PAUL'S DEFENCE. St. Paul answered the charges as follows. (1) He had no seditious intentions, for he was found purified in the Temple 'neither with multitude, nor with tumult' (Acts 24:18). (2) The...
WHEREUPON] RV 'Amidst which.'...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 24 THE *JEWISH LEADERS ACCUSE PAUL, 24:1-9 V1 Five days later, Ananias the *high priest went to Caesarea. Some leaders and Tertullus, a lawyer,...
WHEREUPON CERTAIN JEWS FROM ASIA... — Literally, _in which things,_ or _wherein._ Many of the better MSS. give the relative pronoun in the feminine, as agreeing with “offerings,” and indicating that h...
ἐν οἷς, see critical note. If we read ἐν αἷς = “amidst which,” R.V., “in presenting which,” margin, with reference to προσφοράς, including not only the offerings in connection with the Apostle's assoc...
A TREMBLING BUT VENAL JUDGE Acts 24:17 The case had broken down. Paul's statement of faith and the absence of confirmatory evidence directly contradicted the only charge against him. Felix dared not...
Tertullus, who appeared here, was a Roman barrister, it being necessary for the Jews to employ such in presenting their cases before a Roman tribunal. The charges he made were palpably false. His desc...
Paul's Defense Before Felix Once the governor nodded to him, Paul began his defense. He expressed pleasure at getting to state his case before one who had years of experience in judging on matters inv...
(k) Whereupon certain Jews from (l) Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. (k) And while I was occupied with those things. (l) By this it is evident that thes...
Paul proceeds simply to tell Felix about his arrival at Jerusalem only twelve days ago on the philanthropic errand of bringing the benefactions of the Gentile churches to the poor saints at Jerusalem,...
Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
Paul appears before the governors in succession the Sanhedrim, Felix, Festus, Agrippa, and afterwards Caesar. And here, when occasion offers, we have striking appeals to conscience; when his defence i...
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...
Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. Ver. 18. _Purified in the temple_] Therefore surely not profaning of it: unless they will sa...
_Now after many years_, &c. They have represented me as a profane and lawless person, as if I had thrown contempt upon religion, and done them a great deal of wrong; but so far have I been from doing...
PURIFIED; according to the ceremonies of the Mosaic law. Chap Acts 21:26-28....
The Jews did not delay long just taking enough time (5 days) to make plans by which to influence Felix against Paul. The high priest and elders of the people came down, bringing with them an orator na...
IN THE MIDST OF WHICH SOME JEWS FROM ASIA FOUND ME PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE, NEITHER WITH A MOB NOR WITH TUMULT. 1. The problem did not arise until some Jews from Asia arrived. They are the troublemake...
"In which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar" This answers the charge that Paul had defiled the temple. At the very time when the Jews from Asia fo...
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...
WHEREUPON; upon my bringing up those alms now mentioned; whilst I was employed for the good of my countrymen who now accuse me. PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE; performing all things which the law did require...
Acts 24:18 in G1722 which G3739 G1161 some G5100 Jews G2453 from G575 Asia G773 found G2147 ...
“Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings, among which they found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor yet with tumult.” And what had brought him to Jerusalem? Wh...
In fact the source of the accusations against him were certain Jews from Asia. It was they who, as his original accusers, should have been there if they really had anything to accuse him of (that was...
Acts 24:18. WHEREUPON CERTAIN JEWS FROM ASIA FOUND ME PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE, NEITHER WITH MULTITUDE NOR WITH TUMULT. ‘Whereupon;' literally, ‘in which,' in the midst of which occupations certain Jews...
AMIDST WHICH (εν αιλ). That is, "in which offerings" (in presenting which offerings, Acts 21:27).THEY FOUND ME (my accusers here present, ευρον με),PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE (ηγνισμενον εν τω ιερω)...
CONTENTS: Paul accused before Felix, and his defense. CHARACTERS: Ananias, elders, Tertullus, Felix, Paul, Lysias, Drusilla, Festus. CONCLUSION: Every false cause can find men of sharp wits to plead...
Acts 24:1. _After five days, Ananias descended with the elders;_ to intimidate the governor, and ensure the destruction of Paul, as they had done with Pilate in regard of the Saviour. They lost no tim...
PAUL SAID. Roman law condemned no one without allowing them to speak in their own defence. I KNOW THAT YOU. The frequent turnover of Roman Governors makes Paul's statement accurate. Felix had been gov...
_Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered._ PAUL’S DEFENCE BEFORE FELIX Note-- I. The Christianity of old Judaism. The apostle-- 1. Worshipped the Jews’ God. “So...
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 24:1 The Witness in Caesarea. Paul was imprisoned in Caesarea for more than two years. He received formal hearings from the governors Felix and Festus and the Jewish king Agrippa II....
ACTS—NOTE ON ACTS 24:18 Paul began to relate the events of his being captured IN THE TEMPLE (Acts 21:27). He stopped when he realized his real accusers—the Jews from Asia—
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 24:10. MANY YEARS meant about six or seven, since Felix became procurator about A.D. 52 or 53 (Jos., _Ant._, XX. Acts 7:1). Before his elevation to the procuratorship of Judæa...
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 ora...
Shall we turn now to chapter twenty-four in the book of Acts. Paul had been seen in the temple worshipping God by some of the Jews that were from Asia who were familiar with Paul's ministry among the...
Acts 21:26; Acts 26:21...
Whereupon [ε ν ο ι ς]. More correctly, in which (occupation); while so engaged. The best texts, however, read ejn ai=v, in which, the pronoun agreeing in gender with offerings. The sense, according to...