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:
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While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-21)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 they should speak . Though Tertullus had said a great many provoking things, yet Pau…
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