ACTS 24:19 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.”
'But there were some Jews from Asia — who ought to have been here before you and to make accusation, if they should have anything against me' — Paul notes that his actual accusers (the Asia-Jews from Acts 21:27) are absent. The prosecution relies on hearsay rather than the testimony of eyewitnesses. Roman law requires confrontation of accusers.
Church Fathers on Acts 24:19
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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