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Acts 24:20 KJV
Acts · chapter 24 · verse 20
Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,Acts 24:20 · King James Version
Acts 24:20 in context
18Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
19Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
20Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
21Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
22And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- beforeepiupon, on, at, by, before, of position, on, at, by, over, against, to, over, on, at…G1909 →
- foundheyriskōto come upon, hit upon, to meet with, after searching, to find a thing sought, without…G2147 →
- doingadikēmaa misdeed, evil doing, iniquityG92 →
- stoodhistēmito cause or make to stand, to place, put, set, to bid to stand by, [set up], in the…G2476 →
- elseēeither, or, thanG2228 →
- sayeiponto speak, sayG2036 →
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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