Acts 24:10-27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:16

And herein do I exercise myself ,.... Or because of this; on account of this doctrine of the resurrection of the dead, which is a doctrine according to godliness, and promotes and engages to a holy life and conversation, as the contrary tends to encourage a dissolute and sinful manner of living; see 1 Corinthians 15:32 The apostle studied, and laboured, and bent himself, and employed his thought, care, and time, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward man ;... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:17

Now after many years ,.... Absence from Jerusalem; it was now about five and twenty years since his conversion, and most of this time he spent among the Gentiles; three years after it he went up to Jerusalem, and fourteen years after that, Galatians 1:18 but it had now been some years since he had been there: I came to bring alms to my nation ; the collections which were made among the Gentile churches, particularly in Macedonia, for the poor saints at Jerusalem, Romans 15:25 . ... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:18

Whereupon ,.... Or "among which"; while the apostle was busy about the offerings of the Nazarites: certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple ; and therefore could not be said to profane it; this he observes in answer to the charge of his attempting to profane it, and acquaints the governor how that was; as that having joined himself to four men that had a vow upon them, and being in the temple purifying himself with them, certain Jews that came from Ephesus, in Asia, who... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:19

Who ought to have been here before thee ,.... For they were the only persons who saw him in the temple, and what he was doing; and who by an hideous outcry raised a mob upon him, who took things upon hearsay from them: and object, if they had ought against me ; either with respect to sedition, or blasphemy, error or heresy, if they were capable of proving anything. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:20

Or else let these same here say ,.... They that are present, the high priest and the elders, who were come down to accuse him: if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council ; or "Jewish sanhedrim"; when he was brought before them by the chief captain, Acts 22:30 meaning, if any evil was then done by him, or any iniquity proved upon him, let it be declared; for as for his imprecation, or prophecy, that God would smite the high priest, he excused himself on... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:21

Except it be for this one voice ,.... Sentence or expression following, which declares his faith about the resurrection; not that he thought or owned that this was an evil in him, but that it was the only one, that any of them, the Jews, a part among them, namely, the Sadducees, could condemn, or judge to be evil in him: that I cried, standing among them ; whereby they were thrown into confusion and division among themselves: and it was this, touching the resurrection of the dead I am... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:22

And when Felix heard these things ,.... Which were said on both sides, both by plaintiff and defendant, the charges brought against Paul, and his answer to them, as a judge ought to do: having more perfect knowledge of that way ; the Christian religion, which the Jews called heresy, and Paul had embraced; the sense is, either that he had a more perfect knowledge of it than he had before; and by what Paul had said, he saw that it was not contrary to the law, nor had any tendency to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:23

And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul ,.... In custody, to watch and guard him, and look after him, that he went not away, since he was neither condemned nor acquitted; and therefore must be retained a prisoner, till one or other was done: and to let him have liberty ; not to go where he pleased, or out of the place of confinement, for then there would have been no need of the after direction, not to prohibit his friends from coming to him; but to free him from his bonds and close... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:24

And after certain days ,.... Some days after this trial: when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess ; to Caesarea, having been to fetch her from some other place, or to meet her: this woman was the daughter of Herod Agrippa, who was eaten by worms, Acts 12:23 and sister to King Agrippa, mentioned in the next chapter; but though she was born of Jewish parents, and so a Jewess, as she is here called, yet her name was a Roman name, and is the diminutive of Drusus; the... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 24:25

And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come ,.... The apostle not only discoursed concerning the doctrine of faith in Christ, but insisted upon the duties of religion: and particularly he reasoned upon righteousness; not justifying righteousness, that is only the righteousness of Christ, and which rather belongs to the doctrine of faith in Christ; but the exercise of justice, or the doing of righteousness between man and man; which was agreeably to the light of... read more

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