Verse 17
17. Now Upon the charge of SACRILEGE Paul gives a brief statement of the facts, and challenges the counter proof. (Acts 21:18-29.)
Many years Rather, after some years more, referring to the period of four years since Paul’s last previous visit to Jerusalem. (Acts 18:22.)
Alms This incidental mention of alms is the only allusion to the fact that Paul was all this four years largely engaged in taking collections from his various Churches for the poor Christians at Jerusalem, of which mention is so frequently made in his epistles. (Romans 15:25-26; 1 Corinthians 16:1-4; 2 Corinthians 8:1-4. See note Acts 11:29.) This is one of those undesigned coincidences, showing that both the Acts and Epistles are genuine documents.
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