ACTS 24:18 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.”
'while they were thus engaged in making the offering, they found me already completed the purification in the temple, without any crowd or disturbance' — Paul was in the temple completing purification rites (the Nazirite vow undertaken with James) peacefully. The temple action was not seditious but pious; the narrative corroborates the elders' counsel that Paul participate in a Jewish vow.
Church Fathers on Acts 24:18
Neither with multitude, nor with tumult. Acts 24:18 Everywhere he does away the charge of sedition. And he also does well to challenge his accusers who were from Asia, Who ought to accuse before you, etc., but he does well also not to reject this either; or else, says he, let these same here say. Touching the resurrection of the dead, etc. (v. 19, 20, 21): for in fact it was on this account they were sore troubled from the first, because he preached the Resurrection. This…
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