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Acts 24:12

10 When the governor motioned for Paul to speak, he began his response: “Knowing that you have been a judge over this nation for many years, I gladly make my defense.

11 You can verify for yourself that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.

13 Nor can they prove to you any of their charges against me.

14 I do confess to you, however, that I worship the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.
KJV
And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
WEB
In the temple they didn’t find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.
ASV
and neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.
DARBY
and neither in the temple did they find me discoursing to any one, or making any tumultuous gathering together of the crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;
BLB
And neither did they find me reasoning with anyone or making a tumultuous gathering of a crowd in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.
ÅB
Og hverken i templet eller i synagogene eller omkring i byen har de funnet at jeg talte til noen eller oppviglet folket;
OTB
De fant meg ikke i diskusjon med noen i tempelet, eller i ferd med å skape oppstyr i synagogene eller noe annet sted i byen.
B1930
Og hverken i templet eller i synagogene eller omkring i byen har de funnet at jeg talte til nogen eller opviglet folket;

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Acts 25:8

    Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

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  • Acts 24:18

    At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia

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  • Acts 28:17

    After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, I was taken prisoner in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.

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  • Acts 24:5

    We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

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