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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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)....
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A FLATTERING SPEECH AND A FALSE CHARGE (Acts 24:1-9)...
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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...
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BEFORE. Greek. _epi_. App-104.
OBJECT. accuse, as in Acts 24:2....
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_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...
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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....
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ST PAUL’S ANSWER TO THE CHARGE...
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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)....
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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...
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See notes on verse 10...
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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...
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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...
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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)....
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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...
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SUPERSTITION] RV 'religion.'...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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WHO OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE THEE AND OBJECT IF THEY HAD AUGHT
AGAINST ME....
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The conclusion of Paul's defense:...
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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...
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 24:19 They G3739 ought G1163 (G5748) (G5625) G1163 (G5713) been
G3918 (G5750) before...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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—
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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....
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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Acts 23:30; Acts 25:16...
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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....