Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 24:19
Who ought to have been present before thee — But the world never commit greater blunders, even against its own laws, than when it is persecuting the children of God.
Who ought to have been present before thee — But the world never commit greater blunders, even against its own laws, than when it is persecuting the children of God.
WHO OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE ... - They were the proper witnesses, and as they had staid away it showed that they were not prepared to undergo a strict examination. They alone could testify as to anyth...
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 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)....
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...
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)...
BEFORE. Greek. _epi_. App-104. OBJECT. accuse, as in Acts 24:2....
_and object_ Better (with _Rev. Ver._), "and to make accusation." They had set the cry against him, and now did not come to say what he had done wrong. They were probably on their way home, now that t...
ST PAUL’S ANSWER TO THE CHARGE...
ΚΑῚ ΚΑΤΗΓΟΡΕΙ͂Ν, _and to make accusation_. They had set the cry against him, yet did not come to say what he had done wrong. They were probably on their way home, now that the feast was over....
_PAUL DEFENSE BEFORE FELIX CONTINUED ACTS 24:19-23:_ Paul said the Jews from Asia were the only ones that saw him in the Temple. If they had anything to say against him he felt that they should be pre...
ΤΙΝΈΣ ΔΈ ΆΠ ΤΗΣ ΑΣΊΑΣ Ιουδαΐοι некоторые иудеи из Азии. К этим словам не относится ни один из гл. Павел останавливается, чтобы обратить внимание на их отсутствие, это пример Павлова анаколуфа (RWP)....
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...
_ _ Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me. Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me. If these Asiatic Jews had an...
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...
SUPERSTITION] RV 'religion.'...
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...
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 OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE THEE. — The originators of the disturbance shrank from the consequences of their actions, and either remained at Jerusalem or else started on their homeward journey...
ἔδει without ἄν, _cf._ Luke 11:42; Luke 15:32; on the force of this imperfect, see Burton, p. 14, Winer-Moulton, xli. 2. εἴ τι ἔχοιεν πρός με : the optative of _subjective_ possibility, representing t...
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...
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...
− 19._Certain Jews. _This is an imperfect speech; yet the sense is plain, that these men of Asia, as it should seem, had caused a tumult without cause, of whose absence he complaineth; as if he should...
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 OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE THEE,.... For they were the only persons who saw him in the temple, and what he was doing; and who by an hideous outcry raised a mob upon him, who took things upon h...
Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me. Ver. 19. _Who ought to have been here before thee_] For those that are here to accuse me, speak but by hearsay, whic...
_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...
WHO OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE THEE AND OBJECT IF THEY HAD AUGHT AGAINST ME....
The conclusion of Paul's defense:...
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...
THEY OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE YOU TO OBJECT IF THEY HAD ANYTHING AGAINST ME. 1. Now Paul makes a legal point. All the charges stem from these Jews from Asia. Where are they? 2. Paul has a righ...
"Who ought to have been present before you and to make accusation, if they should have anything against me" Excellent point. None of the people present were the actual eyewitnesses of this accusation...
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...
WHO OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE; the Jews of Asia, who had caused all this stir, having seen Trophimus with Paul in the streets of Jerusalem, and maliciously presuming that he had brought him into the tem...
Acts 24:19 They G3739 ought G1163 (G5748) (G5625) G1163 (G5713) been G3918 (G5750) before...
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 24:19. WHO OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE THEE, AND OBJECT, IF THEY HAD OUGHT AGAINST ME. This was happily urged by the apostle, as it was the Roman custom not to judge a prisoner on any charge u...
BUT CERTAIN JEWS FROM ASIA (τινες δε απο της Αλιας Ιουδαιο). No verb appears in the Greek for these words. Perhaps he meant to say that "certain Jews from Asia charged me with doing these things." I...
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 24:18 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—
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 24:10. 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 23:30; Acts 25:16...