Acts 23:30; Acts 25:16
Who ought to have been here ... - They were the proper witnesses, and as they had staid away it showed that they were not prepared to undergo a s...
Paul's Speech. Paul does not speak till the procurator invites him to do so, according to the necessary order of all judicial proceedings. His spee...
Acts 24:22 f. Felix Adjourns the Case. The clause having more exact knowledge concerning the Way may be due to the editor, who tends to exhibit R...
before . Greek. epi . App-104. object . accuse, as in Acts 24:2 .
− 19. Certain Jews. This is an imperfect speech; yet the sense is plain, that these men of Asia, as it should seem, had caused a tumult with...
Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me. Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if th...
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 Act...
St Paul's Defence. St. Paul answered the charges as follows. (1) He had no seditious intentions, for he was found purified in the Temple 'neither w...
Superstition] RV 'religion.'
Who ought to have been here before thee. — The originators of the disturbance shrank from the consequences of their actions, and either remained at...
a Trembling but Venal Judge Acts 24:17-27 The case had broken down. Paul's statement of faith and the absence of confirmatory evidence directly...
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...
Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this...
Who ought to have been here before thee ,.... For they were the only persons who saw him in the temple, and what he was doing; and who by an hideous...
Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me. Ver. 19. Who ought to have been here before thee ] For those t...
Now after many years , &c. They have represented me as a profane and lawless person, as if I had thrown contempt upon religion, and done them a...
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 th...
Paul's Third Defence. 10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him...
Who ought to have been here; the Jews of Asia, who had caused all this stir, having seen Trophimus with Paul in the streets of Jerusalem, and malic...
In fact the source of the accusations against him were certain Jews from Asia. It was they who, as his original accusers, should have been there if t...
CRITICAL REMARKS Acts 24:10 . Many years meant about six or seven, since Felix became procurator about A.D. 52 or 53 (Jos., Ant. , XX. Acts 7...
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 w...
Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered. Paul’s defence before Felix Note-- I. The Christianity of old J...
EXPOSITION Acts 24:1 The high priest Ananias came down for Ananias the high priest descended, A.V.; certain elders for the elders,...
The conclusion of Paul's defense:
who ought to have been here before thee and object if they had aught against me.
Who ought to have been present before thee — But the world never commit greater blunders, even against its own laws, than when it is persecuting th...
19 Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.