18Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
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For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.
Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them. …
And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
Commentary
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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