ACTS 24:12 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“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:”
'and they did not find me either in the temple disputing with anyone or causing a disturbance in the synagogues, or in the city' — Paul denies the fundamental accusation: he has not been agitating crowds. The prosecutors cannot produce eyewitnesses to seditious speech because none exists. His defense is categorical negation.
Church Fathers on Acts 24:12
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 Acts 24:12; which in fact was the truth. And the accusers indeed use the term ringleader, as if it were a case of fighting and insurrection; but see how mildly Paul here answers. But this I confess unto you, 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…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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