Acts 24 · Verse 18

Acts 24:18

Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
Acts 24:18, King James Version

Acts 24:18 in other translations

BSBAt the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia
WEBamid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
ASVamidst which they found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor yet with tumult: but there were certain Jews from Asia—
YLTin which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult,
DARBYWhereupon they found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia,
BBEAnd having been made clean, I was in the Temple, but not with a great number of people, and not with noise: but there were certain Jews from Asia,
WebsterUpon which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

What does Acts 24:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 24:18-21
18-21. found me purified in the temple--not polluting it, therefore, by my own presence, and neither gathering a crowd nor raising a stir: If then these Asiatic Jews have any charge to bring against me in justification of their arrest of me, why are they not here to substantiate it?

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Barnes' Notes
Verse 18. Certain Jews from Asia. Acts 21:27.

Found me purified in the temple. Acts 21:26,27. They found me engaged in the sacred service of completing the observance of my vow.

Neither with multitude. Not having introduced a multitude with me--in a quiet and peaceful manner.

Albert Barnes, 1834 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 18 Found me purified in the temple - And the Jews of Asia, who stirred up the persecution against me in Jerusalem, found me purified in the temple, regularly performing the religious vow into which I had entered; giving no cause for suspicion; for I made no tumult, nor had I any number of people with me, by whom I could have accomplished any seditious purpose.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 24:10-21

Paul gives a just account of himself, which clears him from crime, and likewise shows the true reason of the violence against him. Let us never be driven from any good way by its having an ill name. It is very comfortable, in worshipping God, to look to him as the God of our fathers, and to set up no other rule of faith or practice but the Scriptures. This shows there will be a resurrection to a final judgment…

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Acts 24:18 in the original Greek

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

ἐνenduringG1722
αἷςhaiswhichG3739
εὗρόνheuronthey foundG2147
μεmemeG3165
ἡγνισμένονhēgnismenonpurifiedG48
ἐνeninG1722
τῷtōtheG3588
ἱερῷhi'erōtempleG2411
οὐounotG3756
μετὰmetawithG3326
ὄχλουochloua crowdG3793
οὐδὲoudenorG3761
μετὰmetainG3326
θορύβου,thoruboutumult,G2351

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Cross references for Acts 24:18

  • Acts 26:21

    For these causes the Jews caught me in the temple, and went about to kill me.

  • Acts 21:26-30

    Then Paul took the men, and the next day purifying himself with them entered into the temple, to signify the accomplishment of the days of purification, until that an offering should be offered for every one of them. And when the seven days were almost ended, the Jews which were of Asia, when they saw him in the temple, stirred up all the people, and laid hands on him, Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all men every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place. (For they had seen before with him in the city Trophimus an Ephesian, whom they supposed that Paul had brought into the temple.) …

  • Acts 24:12

    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:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
21:26-30; 26:21

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Context

  • Acts 24:17

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

  • Acts 24:18

    Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

  • Acts 24:19

    Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.

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Acts 24:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Cuando me hallaron purificado en el templo (no con multitud ni con alboroto) unos Judíos de Asia;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Sur ces entrefaites, ils me trouvèrent purifié dans le temple, sans attroupement et sans tumulte.
German
Elberfelder 1871		wobei sie mich gereinigt im Tempel fanden, weder mit Auflauf noch mit Tumult;
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		in quibus invenerunt me purificatum in templo: non cum turba, neque cum tumultu.