Acts 24:18

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 which oblations.

certain Jews from Asia These words should, according to all authorities, be placed in the latter clause of the verse. Read "Amidst which they found, &c."

found me purified i.e. abstaining from all things forbidden by the law of the Nazarites. See Numbers 6:3-8.

neither with multitude, &c. The gathering of a crowd and raising a disturbance would have been the first steps towards some act of profanation. But even this he had not done. The original requires that we should continue the sentence, "but there were certain Jews from Asia," as in the Rev. Ver.It was from the Asiatic Jews, perhaps those from Ephesus, that the uproar had at first been originated. It would appear also that part of Tertullus" argument was derived from their information. Of these Asiatic Jews St Paul was now about to speak, but he checks himself, and does not say any word against them, only that they ought to have been here to explain the offence for which he had been assailed.