Acts 24:6
in Acts 24and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
who moreover assayed to profane the temple: on whom also we laid hold:
KJV
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
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This verse in Acts 24
Commentary
9 notes on this verseWhom we also apprehended. From whom you will be able, by judging all these things, to know. In this place, some of our Codices have several verses which read in Greek as follows: Whom we also apprehended, and according to our law wished to judge. …
This site's exposition
this man to be a pestilence
on Acts 24:5-6
Tertullus brings three charges, stirring up dissension among the Jews, leading the sect of the Nazarenes, and trying to desecrate the temple. Only the last could carry a death sentence, under the standing Roman permission for Jews to execute temple violators (compare 21:28-29).
This site's exposition
desecrate the temple
Barnes traces the temple charge to the false report that Paul brought Greeks inside (21:28). Paul answers it at verse 18.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple; whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. See how they insult even the Law; it was so like the Law, forsooth, to beat, to kill, to lie in wait! And then the accusation against Lysias: though he had no right, say they, to interfere, in the excess of his confidence he snatched him from us.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Their proof of this failed; for that they alleged as matter of act was utterly false, and they knew it, ch. xxi. (2.) That the course of justice against Paul was obstructed by the chief captain. [1.] They pleaded that they took him, and would have judged him according to their law.
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple,....
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
Hath gone about to profane the temple - This was a heavy charge, if it could have been substantiated, because the Jews were permitted by the Romans to put any person to death who profaned their temple. This charge was founded on the gross calumny mentioned, Act 21:28, Act 21:29; for, as they had seen Trophimus, an Ephesian, with Paul in the city, they pretended that he had brought him into the temple.
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
a pestilent fellow--a plague, or pest. and a mover of sedition among all the Jews--by exciting disturbances among them. throughout the world--(See on Lu 2:1). This was the first charge; and true only in the sense explained on Ac 16:20. a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes--the second charge; and true enough.
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1 more voice on this verse
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Who also hath gone about - Who has endeavored. To profane the temple - This was a serious, but unfounded charge. It arose from the gross calumny of the Jews, when they pretended that he had introduced Greeks into that sacred place, Act 21:28. To this charge he replies in Act 24:18. And would have judged - That is, would have condemned and punished. According to our law - Their law, which forbade the introduction of strangers into the temple.
The words behind it
9 Greek wordsEvery Greek word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Greek | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ὃς | hos | who | G3739 → | 1405 times |
| καὶ | kai | even | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| τὸ | to | the | G3588 → | 19766 times |
| ἱερὸν | hi'eron | temple | G2411 → | 70 times |
| ἐπείρασεν | epeirasen | attempted | G3985 → | 37 times |
| βεβηλῶσαι, | bebelosai | to profane, | G953 → | |
| ὃν | hon | whom | G3739 → | 1405 times |
| καὶ | kai | also | G2532 → | 9120 times |
| ἐκρατήσαμεν | ekratesamen | we seized | G2902 → | 47 times |
ὃςwho
hosG3739 →1405 times
καὶeven
kaiG2532 →9120 times
τὸthe
toG3588 →19766 times
ἱερὸνtemple
hi'eronG2411 →70 times
ἐπείρασενattempted
epeirasenG3985 →37 times
βεβηλῶσαι,to profane,
bebelosaiG953 →
ὃνwhom
honG3739 →1405 times
καὶalso
kaiG2532 →9120 times
ἐκρατήσαμενwe seized
ekratesamenG2902 →47 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
7 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Acts 24:12Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.
it leads to
- Acts 25:8
Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Acts 24:18
At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia
- Acts 28:17
After three days, he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers,…
- Acts 24:5
We have found this man to be a pestilence, stirring up dissension among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
- Acts 25:8
Through
Acts 19:37For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 6:3
We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
- Romans 2:22
You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
- 1 Corinthians 10:32
Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—
- 2 Corinthians 6:3
Where this verse is studied
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About Acts
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Bede, Commentary on Acts; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Chrysostom, Homily on Acts 50; John Gill, Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748); John Lightfoot, Horae Hebraicae et Talmudicae and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.