ACTS 24:20 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,”
'Or else let these men themselves tell what misdeed they found when I stood before the Council' — Paul invokes the testimony of the Sanhedrin itself; none of the Council found him guilty of sedition. The judicial body that examined him exonerates him of the charges now leveled.
Church Fathers on Acts 24:20
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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