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Acts 24:14 KJV
Acts · chapter 24 · verse 14
But 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:Acts 24:14 · King James Version
Acts 24:14 in context
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.
16And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- believingpisteuōto think to be true, to be persuaded of, to credit, place confidence in, of the thing…G4100 →
- confesshomologeōto say the same thing as anotherG3670 →
- fatherspatrōosdescending from father to son or from ancestors to their posterity as it were by right of…G3971 →
- writtengraphōto write, with reference to the form of the letters, to delineate letters on a tablet…G1125 →
- heresyhairesisact of taking, capture e.g. storming a city, choosing, choice, that which is chosen, a…G139 →
- afterkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
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We have here Paul's defence of himself, in answer to Tertullus's charge, and there appears in it a great deal of the spirit of wisdom and holiness, and an accomplishment of Christ's promise to his followers that when they were before governors and kings, for his sake, it should be given them in that same hour what…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-21