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Acts 24:13 KJV
Acts · chapter 24 · verse 13
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.Acts 24:13 · King James Version
Acts 24:13 in context
11Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
12And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
13Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
14But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
15And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- whereofhoswho, which, what, thatG3739 →
- accusekatēgoreōto accuse, before a judge to make an accusation, of an extra-judicial accusationG2723 →
- proveparistēmito place beside or near, to set at hand, to present, to proffer, to provide, to place a…G3936 →
- provemeI, me, my, etcG3165 →
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— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-21