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Acts 24:18

in Acts 24

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

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

amidst which they found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor yet with tumult: but there were certain Jews from Asia—

KJV

Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

This verse in Acts 24

Commentary

8 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Found me purified in the temple - And the Jews of Asia, who stirred up the persecution against me in Jerusalem, found me purified in the temple, regularly performing the religious vow into which I had entered; giving no cause for suspicion; for I made no tumult, nor had I any number of people with me, by whom I could have accomplished any seditious purpose.

This site's exposition

to bring alms to my people

on Acts 24:17-19

Paul returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to his people, the collection of the Gentile congregations in Macedonia and Achaia (Romans 15:25-27). His accusers, some Jews from the province of Asia, are absent, though Roman procedure required accusers to face the accused.

This site's exposition

ceremonially clean

Being ceremonially clean answers the charge of desecration directly, as Jamieson, Fausset and Brown observe. A man in a state of purity was keeping the temple's law. Barnes places Paul at the close of his vow (21:26-27).

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

John Chrysostom

Homily on Acts 50 · Written before 407.

proposed

Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings. In which they found me purified in the temple, not with multitude, neither with tumult. Why then camest thou up? What brought thee hither? To worship, says he; to do alms. This was not the act of a factious person. And for the cause of his going up, I came, he says, to bring alms to my nation and offerings. How then should I have troubled those, for the bringing offerings to whom I had come so long a journey? Neither with multitude, nor with tumult. Everywhere he does away the charge of sedition.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), and that in a very quiet decent manner, neither with multitude nor with tumult. Though he was a man so much talked of, he was far from coveting to show himself when he came to Jerusalem, or to be crowded after, but went to the temple, as much as was possible, incognito.

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — leading-punctuation+unbalanced-parens

Whereupon,....

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

found me purified in the temple--not polluting it, therefore, by my own presence, and neither gathering a crowd nor raising a stir: If then these Asiatic Jews have any charge to bring against me in justification of their arrest of me, why are they not here to substantiate it?

quarantine:debris (2026-07-29) — starts-lowercase

Certain Jews from Asia - Act 21:27. Found me purified in the temple - Act 21:26-27. They found me engaged in the sacred service of completing the observance of my vow. Neither with multitude - Not having introduced a multitude with me - in a quiet and peaceful manner.

The words behind it

14 Greek words

Every 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.

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each 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 24:12

    Yet 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.”

    • 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,

  • Through

    Acts 26:21

    For this reason the Jews seized me in the temple courts and tried to kill me.

    it leads to

    • Acts 21:30–31

      The whole city was stirred up, and the people rushed together. They seized Paul and dragged him out of the temple, and at once the gates were shut.

    • Acts 21:27

      When the seven days were almost over, some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul at the temple. They stirred up the whole crowd and seized him,

    • Acts 22:22

      The crowd listened to Paul until he made this statement. Then they lifted up their voices and shouted, “Rid the earth of him! He is not fit to live!”

    • Acts 25:3

      to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

    • Acts 23:12–15

      When daylight came, the Jews formed a conspiracy and bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink until they had killed Paul.

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The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.
The Pentecost, El Greco, about 1600, Museo del Prado. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); 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); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and William Ramsay, St. Paul the Traveller and the Roman Citizen.