Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Acts 24:6
who also hath gone about to profane the Temple; whom we took and would have judged according to our Law.
who also hath gone about to profane the Temple; whom we took and would have judged according to our Law.
ACTS 24:6-8 evkrath,samen( {B} In the opinion of some scholars (e.g. Blass, Clark, Lagrange, Lake and Cadbury), the Western reading, which passed into the Textus Receptus, is necessary to the sense o...
Verse Acts 24:6. _HATH GONE ABOUT TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE_] This was a heavy charge, if it could have been substantiated, because the Jews were permitted by the Romans to put any person to death who pr...
WHO ALSO HATH GONE ABOUT - Who has endeavored. TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE - This was a serious, but unfounded charge. It arose from the gross calumny of the Jews, when they pretended that he had introduced...
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 ...
HEARING BEFORE FELIX: SPEECH FOR THE PROSECUTION. It would take five days (1) for the summons of Lysias (Acts 23:30) to be acted on, and the prosecutors to travel down. The High Priest and some elders...
Five days afterwards Ananias the high priest came down with some of the elders and with a pleader called Tertullus. They laid information against Paul before the governor. When Paul was called, Tertul...
A FLATTERING SPEECH AND A FALSE CHARGE (Acts 24:1-9)...
ALSO. This should follow "temple". HATH GONE ABOUT. attempted. Same as "assayed" (Acts 16:7). PROFANE. pollute. Greek. _bebeloo._ See note on Matthew 12:5, the only other occurances. TEMPLE. Greek....
_who also hath gone about_[WHO MOREOVER ASSAYED _R. V. to profane the temple_ The old English "gone about" was equivalent to "attempted." Cp. Shaks. _Mids. Nt. D_. iv. 1. 212: "Man is but an ass, if h...
Acts 24:1-9. ARRIVAL OF THE ACCUSERS. SPEECH OF TERTULLUS, THEIR ADVOCATE...
ὍΣ ΚΑῚ ΤῸ ἹΕΡῸΝ ἘΠΕΊΡΑΣΕΝ ΒΕΒΗΛΩ͂ΣΑΙ, _who moreover assayed to profane the Temple_. The orator puts as a fact now, what had at first been only an opinion of the Asiatic Jews, that Paul had brought Tro...
_PAUL WAS ACCUSED IN THE COURT OF FELIX ACTS 24:1-9:_ The High Priest and the Jews knew that they had done wrong in their dealing with Paul so they wanted to get the matter settled quickly. Their inte...
ΈΠΕΊΡΑΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΙΡΆΖΩ (G3985) пытаться, покушаться, с _inf._ В 21:28 Павла обвинили в профанации храма, здесь обвинение ослаблено, речь идет уже опопытке (BAFCS, 3:162). ΒΕΒΗΛΏΣΑΙ _ao...
WHO ALSO HATH GONE ABOUT TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE:— Tertullus artfully mentions this as the most express fact he had to charge upon him, well knowing that the Romans allowed the Jews a power of executing...
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 2...
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. Who also hath gone about ('who even attempted') to profane the temple. This was a third char...
28 As in the case of our Lord, witness after witness testified that Paul had done nothing deserving the bonds he endured or the death with which he was threatened. All who heard his case concurred in...
MORE THAN, etc.] RV 'not more than eight or ten days.'...
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)....
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,...
WHO ALSO HATH GONE ABOUT TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE. — Better, _who even attempted to profane._ Here the case was clearly to be supported by the evidence of the Jews of Asia. The charge, we see, was modifi...
ἐπείρασε : the charge could not be proved, _cf._ Acts 21:28, but the verb here used is an aggravation not a modification of the surmise (ἐνόμιζον, Acts 21:29) of the Jews. βεβ., _cf._ Matthew 12:5 (βα...
TRUTH AGAINST SLANDER Acts 24:1 Paul was always on the lookout for the one ray of light in murky skies. He found a reason for counting himself happy in this dark hour, Acts 24:10. He held himself wit...
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...
The Jews Present the Case Against Paul After five days, the high priest, elders and an orator, or, as Ash says was the case, an attorney, presented themselves before the governor to bring a formal cha...
And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul. (2) And when he was called forth, Tertullus be...
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...
− 6._Who went about to pollute the temple. _It was a light and almost a frivolous accusation to lay this to his charge before the Roman governor, who could have wished that the temple had been turned...
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...
WHO ALSO HATH GONE ABOUT TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE,.... By introducing a Greek into it; see Acts 21:28 which was only a supposition and conjecture of the Asiatic Jews, and was a false and groundless one:...
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. Ver. 6. _To profane the temple_] A loud lie: but innocence is no target against calumny....
_Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious_ Ινα δε μη επι πλειον σε εγκοπτω, _that I may not trouble thee any further_, by trespassing either on thy patience or modesty. The eloquence of Tertullu...
PROFANE THE TEMPLE; chap Acts 21:27-30....
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...
HE EVEN TRIED TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE, AND WE SEIZED HIM, AND WANTED TO JUDGE HIM ACCORDING TO OUR LAW. " 1. Notice the language here. He "tried" to profane the temple. Of course there is no evidence t...
"And he even tried to desecrate the temple" At this point the Jews do not argue that Paul had actually done this (compare with Acts 21:28 where the claim is that he had defiled the temple), but rather...
1-9 See here the unhappiness of great men, and a great unhappiness it is, to have their services praised beyond measure, and never to be faithfully told of their faults; hereby they are hardened and...
HATH GONE ABOUT TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE; by bringing into the temple (as they falsely suggested) uncircumcised persons: but Tertullus does not mention this, or show in what Paul had profaned the temple;...
Acts 24:6 He G3739 even G2532 tried G3985 (G5707) profane G953 (G5658) temple G2411 and G2532 seized...
Acts 24:6. WHO ALSO HATH GONE ABOUT TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE. More literally, ‘who even tried to profane.' It is noticeable that here the error of the tumultuous Jews, who, when they saw Paul in the temp...
ASSAYED TO PROFANE (επειρασεν βεβηλωσα). A flat untruth, but the charge of the Asian Jews (Acts 21:28-30). _Verbum optum ad calumnian_ (Bengel).WE SEIZED (εκρατησαμεν). As if the Sanhedrin had arr...
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...
FIVE DAYS LATER. Five days after Paul had escaped from Jerusalem. Roman justice moved swiftly. The deep hatred of the Jewish leaders is shown by the fact that the High Priest himself comes, with some...
_And after five days Ananias the high priest descended … with a certain orator named Tertullus._ PAUL BEFORE FELIX--A PICTURE OF BARRISTERIAL DEPRAVITY 1. From his Roman name we judge that Tertullus...
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....
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 24:1. AFTER FIVE DAYS.—Reckoned from Paul’s departure from Jerusalem (Kuinoel, Meyer, De Wette, Hackett, Alford, Plumptre), though some (Holtzmann, Lechler, Zöckler, Olshausen,...
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 21:30; Acts 22:23; Acts 23:10; Acts 19:37; Acts 21:27;...
To profane [β ε β η λ ω σ α ι]. The word is akin to bhlov, threshold, and bainw, to step; and its fundamental idea, therefore, is that of overstepping the threshold of sacred places. The word profane...