Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
Paul had been absent from Jerusalem for long years, living among distant peoples, and now returns to bring alms and offerings, yet the nation repays his devotion with evil. His purifying in the temple proves he did not pollute it; his quiet action without tumult clears him of fomenting sedition.
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Paul waited his turn without interrupting, and when the governor beckoned him to speak, he answered not with Tertullus's flattering compliments but with respectful confidence in Felix's fairness. He leveled his defense against those who employed the accuser, knowing well how such men speak for their fee.
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Commenting on Acts 24:10-21
The very fact that Jews from Asia found Paul purified in the temple refutes the charge that he profaned it. He was acting according to Jewish worship and service, with only four men present and no riot, nothing but orderly observance of the law.
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