Acts 24:11

Because thou canst understand, that there have been but twelve days, since I went up to Jerusalem to worship.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.

In Context

10Then the governor made signs to Paul, that he should speak. And Paul answered and said: I know thee to have been a judge of this nation for many years, and I therefore cheerfully enter upon a defence of myself.

12And they did not find me talking with any person in the temple, nor collecting any company, either in their synagogues, or in the city.

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Cross References

Acts 21:18And the next day, with Paul, we went unto James, when all the Elders were with him.

Acts 22:30And the next day, he wished to know truly what the accusation was, which the Jews brought against him: and he unbound him, and commanded the chief priests, and the whole company of their head-men, to assemble; and he took Paul, and brought him down, and placed him among them.

Acts 23:23And he called two centurions, and said to them: Go and prepare two hundred Romans to go to Caesarea, and seventy horsemen, and shooters with the right hand two hundred; and let them set out at the third hour of the night.

Acts 24:1And after five days, Ananias the high priest, with the Elders, and with Tertullus the orator, went down, and made a communication to the governor against Paul.

Matthew Henry on Acts 24:11-22

Paul's Third Defence. 10 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 nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself: 11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship. 12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: 13 Neither can they prove the… Read the whole commentary →

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