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Acts 24:17
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15 aI have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, bthat there will be a resurrection1 of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.  
16 aThis being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men.  
17 “Now after many years aI came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,  
18 ain the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me bpurified in the temple, neither with a mob nor with tumult.  
19 aThey ought to have been here before you to object if they had anything against me.  
20 Or else let those who are here themselves say1 if they found any wrongdoing in me while I stood before the council,  
21 unless it is for this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, a‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you this day.’ ”  

Felix Procrastinates

22 But when Felix heard these things, having more accurate knowledge of the aWay, he adjourned the proceedings and said, “When bLysias the commander comes down, I will make a decision on your case.”  
23 So he commanded the centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty, and atold him not to forbid any of his friends to provide for or visit him.  
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Acts 24:17

After many years (di etwn pleionwn). "At an interval (dia) of more (pleionwn) years" (than a few, one must add), not "after many years." If, as is likely Paul went up to Jerusalem in Acts 18:22, that was some five years ago and would justify "pleionwn" (several years ago or some years ago).

To bring alms (elehmosunav poihson). Another (see proskunhswn in verse Acts 24:11) example of the future participle of purpose in the N.T. These "alms" (on elehmosunav see on Matthew 6:1, Matthew 6:4; Acts 10:2, common in Tobit and is in the papyri) were for the poor saints in Jerusalem (I Corinthians 16:1-4; 2Co. 8; 9; Romans 15:26) who were none the less Jews. "And offerings" (kai prosforav). The very word used in Acts 21:26 of the offerings or sacrifices made by Paul for the four brethren and himself. It does not follow that it was Paul's original purpose to make these "offerings" before he came to Jerusalem (cf. Acts 18:18). He came up to worship (verse Acts 24:11) and to be present at Pentecost (Acts 20:16).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Acts 24:17:

Acts 21:27
Acts 24:22
Acts 24:26
Acts 28:19

 

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