Acts 24:17 - Exposition

After many years ; or, several years. St. Paul's last visit to Jerusalem was that mentioned in Acts 18:22 . Since then he had spent "some time" ( χρόνον τινά ) at Antioch, had gone over all the country of Phrygia and Galatia, had come to Ephesus, and stopped between two and three years there, had gone through Macedonia, had spent three months at Corinth, had returned to Macedonia, and from thence had come to Jerusalem in about fifty days. All which must have occupied four or five years—from A.D. 54 to A.D. 58—according to most chronologers. Evidently Paul had not been plotting seditious movements at Jerusalem, where he had only ,arrived twelve days before, for a purely benevolent and pious purpose, after an absence of four or five years Alms … and offerings . Those of which he speaks in 1 Corinthians 16:1-4 ; 2 Corinthians 8:1-24 ; Romans 15:25 , Romans 15:26 , Romans 15:31 . To this may be added "the charges" for which he made himself answerable for the poor Nazarites ( Acts 21:24 , Acts 21:26 ).