Acts 24:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

After many years; it is thought fourteen years, which we find mentioned, Galatians 2:1; and therefore the more unlike to have any seditious practices there, where he had so little acquaintance. I came to bring alms to my nation; and he was so far from designing mischief to his nation, that his charity to them put him upon this journey. And offerings; which in his condescension to the Jews, and hoping to gain their good will, he brought according to the law; as Acts 21:26. For whilst Jerusalem and the temple stood, those offerings were in a sort permitted; but God, in that general destruction of both city and temple, put an end to them all.