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Acts 24:12

10 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:

11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.

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:

13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.

14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and 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;

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  • Acts 25:8

    While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Cæsar, have I offended any thing at all.

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  • Acts 24:18

    Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

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  • Acts 28:17

    And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.

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  • Acts 24:5

    For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

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