Acts 24:20
18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
19 Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
21 Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
22 And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
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.
Compare
- BSB
- Otherwise, let these men state for themselves any crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin,
- KJV
- Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
- WEB
- Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,
- ASV
- Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing they found when I stood before the council,
- DARBY
- or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me when I stood before the council,
- BLB
- Or let these say themselves any unrighteousness they found in my having stood before the Council,
- ÅB
- Eller la disse selv si hva skyld de fant hos meg dengang jeg sto for rådet,
- OTB
- Eller la disse mennene her si hvilken forbrytelse de fant i meg da jeg stod foran Rådet—
- B1930
- Eller la disse selv si hvad skyld de fant hos mig dengang jeg stod for rådet,