Acts 24:6
and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.
BSB
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.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
Commentary on Acts (735)
Whom 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. …
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.
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.
The walk7
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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.
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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 independent paths from here.
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
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,…
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,
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Acts 19:37For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.
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We put no obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no one can discredit our ministry.
You who forbid adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—