Acts 24:5 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

For we have found this man a pestilent fellow [loimon (G3061)] - 'a plague,' 'a pest,'

And a mover of sedition among all the Jews - exciting disturbances among them,

Throughout the world, [oikoumeneen ( G3625), as in Luke 2:1 ]. This was a first charge, and it was true only in the sense explained on Acts 16:20 .

And a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes - a second charge, and true enough.

Acts 24:5

5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: