Acts 24:17

Christian Standard Bible ®

After many years, I came to bring charitable gifts and offerings to my people.

Parallel Translations

King James Version (1611)
Now after many yeeres, I came to bring almes to my nation, & offrings:

King James Version
Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

English Standard Version
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.

New American Standard Bible
"Now after several years I came to bring charitable gifts to my nation and to present offerings,

New Century Version
"After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went back to bring money to my people and to offer sacrifices.

Amplified Bible
"Now after several years I came [to Jerusalem] to bring to my people charitable contributions and offerings.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings;

Legacy Standard Bible
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings;

Berean Standard Bible
After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

Contemporary English Version
After being away for several years, I returned here to bring gifts for the poor people of my nation and to offer sacrifices.

Complete Jewish Bible
"After an absence of several years, I came to Yerushalayim to bring a charitable gift to my nation and to offer sacrifices.

Darby Translation
And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.

Easy-to-Read Version
"I was away from Jerusalem for many years. I went back there to take money to help my people. I also had some gifts to offer at the Temple. I was doing this when some Jews saw me there. I had finished the cleansing ceremony. I had not made any trouble, and no one was gathering around me.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Now after many yeres, I came & brought almes to my nation and offerings.

George Lamsa Translation
Now after many years, I came to my own people to distribute alms and to present an offering.

Good News Translation
"After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went there to take some money to my own people and to offer sacrifices.

Lexham English Bible
So after many years, I came to practice charitable giving and offerings to my people,

Literal Translation
And after many years I arrived doing alms and offerings to my nation,

American Standard Version
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

Bible in Basic English
Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:

Hebrew Names Version
Now after some years, I came to bring gifts to the needy to my nation, and offerings;

International Standard Version
After many years I have come back to my people to bring gifts for the poor and to offer sacrifices.Acts 11:29-30; 20:16; Romans 15:25; 2 Corinthians 8:4; Galatians 2:10;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
But after many years I came to the sons of my people to bestow alms, and to present an oblation.

Murdock Translation
And, after many years, I came to the people of my own nation, to impart alms, and to present an offering.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe after many yeres, I came and brought almes to my nation, and offerynges:

English Revised Version
Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

World English Bible
Now after some years, I came to bring gifts to the needy to my nation, and offerings;

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But after many yeeris, Y cam to do almes dedis to my folc, and offryngis, and auowis;

Update Bible Version
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

Webster's Bible Translation
Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

New English Translation
After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

New King James Version
"Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,

New Living Translation
"After several years away, I returned to Jerusalem with money to aid my people and to offer sacrifices to God.

New Life Bible
"After a few years I came to bring gifts of money to the people of my country (Jerusalem).

New Revised Standard
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation and to offer sacrifices.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, after many years, intending to do, alms, unto my nation, I arrived, - also to present offerings; among which they found me, purified in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with tumult;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings and vows.

Revised Standard Version
Now after some years I came to bring to my nation alms and offerings.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But after many yeres I came and brought almes to my people and offeringes

Young's Literal Translation
`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But after many yeares I came and broughte allmesse vnto my people, and offeringes:

Mace New Testament (1729)
after several years absence I came to Jerusalem, with contributions for my brethren, and oblations for the temple:

Simplified Cowboy Version
"I had been away for a couple of years and just returned with money to help my people and to offer sacrifices to God.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰When the governor motioned for him to speak, Paul replied: “Because I know you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I am glad to offer my defense in what concerns me. ¹¹You can verify for yourself that it is no more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem. ¹²They didn’t find me arguing with anyone or causing a disturbance among the crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or anywhere in the city. ¹³Neither can they prove the charges they are now making against me. ¹⁴But I admit this to you: I worship the God of my ancestors according to the Way, which they call a sect, believing everything that is in accordance with the law and written in the prophets. ¹⁵I have a hope in God, which these men themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection, both of the righteous and the unrighteous. ¹⁶I always strive to have a clear conscience toward God and men. ¹⁷After many years, I came to bring charitable gifts and offerings to my people. ¹⁸While I was doing this, some Jews from Asia found me ritually purified in the temple, without a crowd and without any uproar. ¹⁹It is they who ought to be here before you to bring charges, if they have anything against me.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to bring: Acts 11:29, Acts 11:30, Acts 20:16, Romans 15:25, Romans 15:26, 1 Corinthians 16:1, 1 Corinthians 16:2, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Galatians 2:10

offerings: Acts 21:26

Reciprocal: Ezra 1:4 - let the men Isaiah 60:5 - forces Zephaniah 3:10 - General Zechariah 6:10 - which Matthew 6:2 - when Luke 11:41 - rather Acts 19:21 - to go Acts 23:5 - I wist Acts 24:11 - to worship Acts 25:8 - Neither 2 Corinthians 8:4 - the ministering

Cross-References

Genesis 24:1
Abraham was now old, getting on in years, and the Lord had blessed him in everything.

Genesis 24:6
Abraham answered him, “Make sure that you don’t take my son back there.

Genesis 24:7
The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from my native land, who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘I will give this land to your offspring’—he will send his angel before you, and you can take a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 24:17
Then the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jug.”

Genesis 24:18
She replied, “Drink, my lord.” She quickly lowered her jug to her hand and gave him a drink.

Genesis 24:35
“The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

1 Kings 17:10
So Elijah got up and went to Zarephath. When he arrived at the city gate, there was a widow gathering wood. Elijah called to her and said, “Please bring me a little water in a cup and let me drink.”

Isaiah 21:14
Bring water for the thirsty.The inhabitants of the land of Temameet the refugees with food.

Isaiah 30:25
Streams flowing with water will be on every high mountain and every raised hill on the day of great slaughter when the towers fall.

Isaiah 49:10
They will not hunger or thirst,the scorching heat or sun will not strike them;for their compassionate one will guide them,and lead them to springs.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now after many years,.... Absence from Jerusalem; it was now about five and twenty years since his conversion, and most of this time he spent among the Gentiles; three years after it he went up to Jerusalem, and fourteen years after that, Galatians 1:18 but it had now been some years since he had been there:

I came to bring alms to my nation; the collections which were made among the Gentile churches, particularly in Macedonia, for the poor saints at Jerusalem, Romans 15:25.

and offerings; either for the day of Pentecost, according to the usages of that feast, or the offerings on the account of the vow of the Nazarite, Acts 21:26. The Vulgate Latin version adds, "and vows"; unless the spiritual and evangelical sacrifices of prayer and praise can be thought to be meant, since the ceremonial law was now abrogated; though it is manifest the apostle did at some times, and in some cases, comply with the Jews in the observance of it, in order to gain some.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now after many years - After many years’ absence. Paul here commences a reply to the charge of Tentullus, that he had endeavored to profane the temple, Acts 24:6. He begins by saying that his design in coming up to Jerusalem was to bring to his countrymen needed aid in a time of distress. It would be absurd to suppose, therefore, that his object in coming was to violate the customs of the temple, and to defile it.

I came to bring - See Acts 11:29-30; compare the notes on Romans 15:25-26.

Alms - Charities; the gift of the churches.

To my nation - Not to all the nation, but to the poor saints or Christians who were in Judea, and who were suffering much by persecutions and trials.

And offerings - The word used here properly denotes “an offering or gift” of any kind; but it is usually applied to an oblation or offering made to God in the temple - “a thank-offering, a sacrifice.” This is probably its meaning here. He came to bring aid to his needy countrymen, and an offering to God; and it was, therefore, no part of his purpose to interfere with, or to profane the worship of the temple.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Acts 24:17. Now, after many years, &c.] And as a full proof that I act according to the dictates of this Divine and beneficent creed, though I have been many years absent from my own country, and my political relation to it is almost necessarily dissolved, yet, far from coming to disturb the peace of society, or to injure any person, I have brought ALMS to my nation, the fruits of my own earning and influence among a foreign people, and OFFERINGS to my God and his temple, proving hereby my attachment to my country, and my reverence for the worship of my country's God.