Acts 24:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. ”

Acts 24:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Who also hath gone about - Who has endeavored. To profane the temple - This was a serious, but unfounded charge. It arose from the gross calumny of the Jews, when they pretended that he had i...
Acts 24:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Hearing before Felix: Speech for the Prosecution. It would take five days (1) for the summons of Lysias ( Acts 23:30 ) to be acted on, and the prosecutors to travel down. The High Priest and some e...
Acts 24:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

also . This should follow "temple". hath gone about . attempted. Same as "assayed" ( Acts 16:7 ). profane . pollute. Greek. bebeloo. See note on Matthew 12:5 , the only other occurances. te...
Acts 24:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

− 6. Who went about to pollute the temple. It was a light and almost a frivolous accusation to lay this to his charge before the Roman governor, who could have wished that the temple had bee...
Acts 24:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. Hath gone about to profane the temple - This was a heavy charge, if it could have been substa...
Acts 24:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple:— Tertullus artfully mentions this as the most express fact he had to charge upon him, well knowing that the Romans allowed the Jews a power of execut...
Acts 24:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. Who also hath gone about ('who even attempted') to profane the temple. This was a thi...
Acts 24:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

St. Paul before felix 1-27. St Paul and Felix. 1. Tertullus] in spite of his Roman name may have been a Greek or even a Jew (cp.'our Law,' AV Acts 24:6 ).
Acts 24:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple. — Better, who even attempted to profane. Here the case was clearly to be supported by the evidence of the Jews of Asia. The charge, we see, was mod...
Acts 24:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Truth against Slander Acts 24:1-16 Paul was always on the lookout for the one ray of light in murky skies. He found a reason for counting himself happy in this dark hour, Acts 24:10 . He held...
Acts 24:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Tertullus, who appeared here, was a Roman barrister, it being necessary for the Jews to employ such in presenting their cases before a Roman tribunal. The charges he made were palpably false. His des...
Acts 24:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul. (2) And when he was called forth, Tertullus b...
Acts 24:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple ,.... By introducing a Greek into it; see Acts 21:28 which was only a supposition and conjecture of the Asiatic Jews, and was a false and groundless...
Acts 24:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. Ver. 6. To profane the temple ] A loud lie: but innocence is no target against calumny.
Acts 24:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious Ινα δε μη επι πλειον σε εγκοπτω, that I may not trouble thee any further , by trespassing either on thy patience or modesty. The eloquence of Tertull...
Acts 24:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The Jews did not delay long just taking enough time (5 days) to make plans by which to influence Felix against Paul. The high priest and elders of the people came down, bringing with them an orator n...
Acts 24:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Speech of Tertullus. 1 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator name...
Acts 24:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Hath gone about to profane the temple; by bringing into the temple (as they falsely suggested) uncircumcised persons: but Tertullus does not mention this, or show in what Paul had profaned the temp...
Acts 24:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 24:1 . After five days .—Reckoned from Paul’s departure from Jerusalem (Kuinoel, Meyer, De Wette, Hackett, Alford, Plumptre), though some (Holtzmann, Lechler, Zöckler, Olsh...
Acts 24:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 24:1 . After five days, Ananias descended with the elders; to intimidate the governor, and ensure the destruction of Paul, as they had done with Pilate in regard of the Saviour. They lost no...
Acts 24:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

And after five days Ananias the high priest descended … with a certain orator named Tertullus. Paul before Felix--a picture of barristerial depravity 1. From his Roman name we judge that Tertul...
Acts 24:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Acts 24:1 The high priest Ananias came down for Ananias the high priest descended, A.V.; certain elders for the elders, A.V. and T.R.; an orator, one Tertullus for a c...
Acts 24:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The charges against Paul:
Acts 24:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 21:30-32 ; Acts 22:23 ; Acts 23:10-15 ; Acts 19:37 ; Acts 21:27-29 ; Acts 24:12 ; John 18:31 ; John 19:7 ; John 19:8

Acts 24:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Acts 24:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 24:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Acts 24:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 24:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Acts 24:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Acts 24:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Acts 24:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 24:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Acts 24:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Acts 24:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Acts 24:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Acts 24:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Acts 24:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Acts 24:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 24:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Acts 24:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acts 24:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Acts 24:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Acts 24:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Acts 24:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Acts 24:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Acts 24:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Acts 24:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge