Acts 24:6 - Exposition

Moreover assayed for also hath gone about, A.V.; on whom also we laid hold for whom we took, A.V. To profane the temple . The same false charge as was made in Acts 21:28 . The remainder of Acts 21:6 , after the words "on whom we laid hold," the whole of Acts 21:7 , and the first clause of Acts 21:8 , are omitted in the R.T. on the authority of א , A, B, G, H, etc. But the propriety of the omission is doubtful (Alford, Bishop Jacobson, Plumptre), though sanctioned by Mill, Bengel, Griesbach, Lachmann, and Tisehendorf (Meyer). If the words are not genuine, it is a marvelously skilful interpolation, fitting into the place so exactly both at the beginning and at the end, and supplying a manifest want in the speech of Tertullus. (For the statement in Acts 21:8 A.V., camp. Acts 23:30 .)