Acts 24:14

This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the Cause which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the prophets;

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In The King James Version

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

In Context

13and they cannot establish the charges which they are now making against me.

15and I have a hope that rests in God — a hope which they also cherish — that there will one day be a resurrection of good and bad alike.

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Cross References

Matthew 7:12Do to others whatever you would wish them to do to you; for that is the teaching of both the Law and the Prophets.

Matthew 22:40On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”

Luke 16:16The Law and the Prophets sufficed until the time of John. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been told, and everybody has been forcing his way into it.

Luke 24:27Then, beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he explained to them all through the Scriptures the passages that referred to himself.

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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