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Literal Standard Version

Acts 24:12

and neither did they find me reasoning with anyone in the temple, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Defense;   Readings, Select;   Self-Defense;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Resurrection, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Caesarea;   Felix;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Paul;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Synagogue;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Ordination;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acts;   Oration, Orator;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Justice;   Latin;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Felix ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Heresy;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
They 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.
King James Version (1611)
And they neither found me in the Temple disputing with any man, neither raising vp the people, neither in the Synagogues, nor in the citie:
King James Version
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:
English Standard Version
and they did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in the city.
New American Standard Bible
"And neither in the temple did they find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or causing a riot, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city itself.
New Century Version
Those who are accusing me did not find me arguing with anyone in the Temple or stirring up the people in the synagogues or in the city.
Amplified Bible
"Neither in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor elsewhere in the city did they find me carrying on a discussion or disputing with anybody or causing a crowd to gather.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Neither in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city itself did they find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or causing a riot.
Legacy Standard Bible
And neither in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor across the city did they find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or causing a riot.
Berean Standard Bible
Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.
Contemporary English Version
Never once did the Jews find me arguing with anyone in the temple. I didn't cause trouble in the Jewish meeting places or in the city itself.
Complete Jewish Bible
and neither in the Temple nor in the synagogues nor anywhere else in the city did they find me either arguing with anyone or collecting a crowd.
Darby Translation
and neither in the temple did they find me discoursing to any one, or making any tumultuous gathering together of the crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;
Easy-to-Read Version
These Jews who are accusing me did not find me arguing with anyone at the Temple or making trouble with the people. And I was not making trouble or arguing in the synagogues or any other place in the city.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And they neither found mee in the Temple disputing with any man, neither making vproare among the people, neither in the Synagogues, nor in the citie.
George Lamsa Translation
And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, nor have I had an assembly either in their synagogues or in the city:
Good News Translation
The Jews did not find me arguing with anyone in the Temple, nor did they find me stirring up the people, either in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city.
Lexham English Bible
And neither did they find me arguing with anyone or making a crowd develop in the temple courts nor in the synagogues nor throughout the city.
Literal Translation
and neither did they find me reasoning with anyone in the temple, or making a gathering of a crowd, neither in the synagogues, nor throughout the city;
American Standard Version
and neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.
Bible in Basic English
And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town:
Hebrew Names Version
In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
International Standard Version
They never found me debating with anyone in the temple or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues or throughout the city,Acts 25:8; 28:17;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
Neither found they me speaking with any man in the temple, neither have I gathered an assembly in their synagogue nor in the city;
Murdock Translation
And they did not find me talking with any person in the temple, nor collecting any company, either in their synagogues, or in the city.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And they neither founde me in the temple disputyng with any man, either raysyng vp the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the citie.
English Revised Version
and neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.
World English Bible
In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And they neither found me disputing with any man in the temple, nor making an insurrection among the people, either in the synagogues or in the city.
Weymouth's New Testament
and that neither in the Temple nor in the synagogues, nor anywhere in the city, did they find me disputing with any opponent or collecting a crowd about me.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and nether in the temple thei founden me disputinge with ony man, nether makynge concours of puple, nether in synagogis, nether in citee;
Update Bible Version
and neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man or stirring up a crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city.
Webster's Bible Translation
And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither exciting the people to sedition, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:
New English Translation
They did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city,
New King James Version
And they neither found me in the temple disputing with anyone nor inciting the crowd, either in the synagogues or in the city.
New Living Translation
My accusers never found me arguing with anyone in the Temple, nor stirring up a riot in any synagogue or on the streets of the city.
New Life Bible
I did not argue with anyone in the house of God or in the Jewish places of worship or in the city. I was not making trouble.
New Revised Standard
They did not find me disputing with anyone in the temple or stirring up a crowd either in the synagogues or throughout the city.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and neither, in the temple, found they me, with any one, disputing, or causing, a halt, of the multitude, either in the synagogues or throughout the city, -
Douay-Rheims Bible
And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man or causing any concourse of the people: neither in the synagogues, nor in the city.
Revised Standard Version
and they did not find me disputing with any one or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues, or in the city.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and that they nether founde me in the teple disputinge with eny man other raysinge vp the people nether in the Synagoges nor in the cite.
Young's Literal Translation
and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and that they nether founde me in the temple disputinge with eny man, or makynge eny vproure amonge the people, ner in ye synagoges, ner in the cite:
Mace New Testament (1729)
they neither found me in conference with any one in the temple, nor working up the people either in the assemblies or in the streets:
Simplified Cowboy Version
These people talk about facts, but none of them can produce a shred of evidence that I was inciting a riot or riling anyone up. I didn't do anything wrong in a church building or even a street corner.

Contextual Overview

10And Paul—the governor having beckoned to him to speak—answered, "Knowing [that] for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I answer more cheerfully the things concerning myself; 11you being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem, 12and neither did they find me reasoning with anyone in the temple, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;13nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me. 14And I confess this to you, that, according to The Way that they call a sect, so I serve the God of the fathers, believing all things that have been written in the Law and the Prophets, 15having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, [that] there is about to be a resurrection of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous; 16and in this I exercise myself, to always have a conscience void of offense toward God and men. 17And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings, 18in which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult, 19whom it is necessary to be present before you, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Acts 24:5, Acts 25:8, Acts 28:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 40:15 - done Judges 11:15 - Israel took Nehemiah 6:8 - There are Psalms 35:11 - False witnesses Proverbs 18:17 - General John 18:21 - ask Acts 24:6 - gone

Cross-References

Genesis 15:1
After these things the word of YHWH has been to Abram in a vision, saying, "Do not fear, Abram, I [am] a shield to you, your reward [is] exceedingly great."
Genesis 24:7
YHWH, God of the heavens, who has taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who has spoken to me, and who has sworn to me, saying, To your seed I give this land, He sends His messenger before you, and you have taken a wife for my son from there;
Genesis 24:8
and if the woman is not willing to come after you, then you have been acquitted from this my oath: only you do not cause my son to return there."
Genesis 24:10
And the servant takes ten camels of the camels of his lord and goes, also of all the goods of his lord in his hand, and he rises, and goes to Aram-Naharaim, to the city of Nahor;
Genesis 24:11
and he causes the camels to kneel at the outside of the city, at the well of water, at evening, at the time of the coming out of the women who draw water.
Genesis 24:16
and the young person [is] of very good appearance, a virgin, and a man has not known her; and she goes down to the fountain, and fills her pitcher, and comes up.
Genesis 24:17
And the servant runs to meet her and says, "Please let me swallow a little water from your pitcher";
Genesis 24:27
and says, "Blessed [is] YHWH, God of my lord Abraham, who has not left off His kindness and His truth with my lord—I [being] in the way, YHWH has led me to the house of my lord's brothers."
Genesis 24:42
And I come to the fountain today, and I say, YHWH, God of my lord Abraham, now if You are making prosperous my way in which I am going—
Genesis 24:48
and I bow, and pay respect before YHWH, and I bless YHWH, God of my lord Abraham, who has led me in the true way to receive the daughter of my lord's brother for his son.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man,.... Either about civil or religious affairs: not that it was criminal to dispute in the temple; it was a common thing for the doctors to dispute about matters of religion, in the porches, and courts, and chambers of the temple, as it may be observed they often did with Christ; but the apostle mentions this to show, that he was so far from moving sedition among the people of the Jews, that he never so much as entered into any conversation with them, upon any subject whatever: true indeed, he was in the temple, and was found there, but not disputing with any, but purifying himself according to the law of Moses:

neither raising up the people; stirring them up to sedition, and tumult, to rebel against the Roman government:

neither in the synagogues; where there were the greatest concourse of people, and the best opportunity of sowing seditious principles, and of which there were many in the city of Jerusalem. The Jews say p there were four hundred and sixty synagogues in Jerusalem; some say q four hundred and eighty:

nor in the city; of Jerusalem, in any of the public streets or markets, where there were any number of people collected together; the apostle mentions the most noted and public places, where any thing of this kind might most reasonably be thought to be done.

p T. Hieros. Cetubot, fol. 35. 3. q Ib. Megilla, fol. 73. 4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And they neither found me ... - The first charge of Tertullus against Paul was Acts 24:5 that he was “a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition.” The charge of his being a Test was so general that Paul did not think it necessary to attempt to refute it. To the specification that he was a mover of sedition, he replies by a firm denial, and by a solemn declaration that they had not found him in any synagogue, or in the city, or in the temple, either disputing or exciting a tumult. Pits conduct there had been entirely peaceable, and they had no right to suppose that it had been otherwise anywhere.


 
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