"Now after several years" Paul could not be stirring up trouble in Jerusalem, he had only been there for. little over. week and this visit came after years of being absent from Jerusalem. Five years had gone by since his last visit mentioned in Acts 18:22, eight years since his visit at the time of the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15:1). "I came to bring alms to my nation" That is, he was bringing the collection from the churches for the poor Jewish Christians in Jerusalem (1 Corinthians 16:1). "This is the only direct notice in Acts of this offering about which so much was written in the epistles that issued from the third missionary journey (Romans 15:25; 1 Corinthians 16:1; 2 Corinthians 8:1; 2 Corinthians 9:1)" (Reese p. 846). "And to present offerings" Probably those mentioned in Acts 21:23.

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