Acts 24:6
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
Acts 24:6 in other translations
| BSB | and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him. |
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| WEB | He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him. |
| ASV | who moreover assayed to profane the temple: on whom also we laid hold: |
| YLT | who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge, |
| DARBY | who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had seized, [and would have judged according to our law; |
| BBE | Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took, |
| Webster | Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. |
What does Acts 24:6 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 24:5-8
5-8. a pestilent fellow--a plague, or pest. and a mover of sedition among all the Jews--by exciting disturbances among them. throughout the world--(See on Lu 2:1). This was the first charge; and true only in the sense explained on Ac 16:20. a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes--the second charge; and true enough.
Barnes' Notes
To profane the temple. This was a serious, but unfounded charge. It arose from the gross calumny of the apostle, when they pretended that he had introduced Greeks into that sacred place, Acts 21:28. To this charge the apostle replies in Acts 24:18.
And would have judged. That is, would have condemned and punished.
According to our law. Their law, which forbade the introduction of strangers into the temple.
(+) "about" "attempted" (b) "profane" Acts 19:37, 21:28 (++) "took" "seized" (c) "according" Jn 18:31
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Acts 24:1-9
See here the unhappiness of great men, and a great unhappiness it is, to have their services praised beyond measure, and never to be faithfully told of their faults; hereby they are hardened and encouraged in evil, like Felix. God's prophets were charged with being troublers of the land, and our Lord Jesus Christ, that he perverted the nation; the very same charges were brought against Paul. The selfish and evil…
Acts 24:6 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Acts 24:6
- 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:
- John 18:31
Then said Pilate unto them, Take ye him, and judge him according to your law. The Jews therefore said unto him, It is not lawful for us to put any man to death:
- Acts 19:37
For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
- John 19:7-8
The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God. When Pilate therefore heard that saying, he was the more afraid;
- Acts 23:10-15
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle. And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome. And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. …
- Acts 21:27-32
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.) And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. …
- Acts 22:23
And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,
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Context
- Acts 24:5
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
- Acts 24:6
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
- Acts 24:7
But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,
Acts 24:6 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El cual también tentó á violar el templo; y prendiéndole, le quisimos juzgar conforme á nuestra ley: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | il a même tenté de profaner le temple: aussi l’avons-nous saisi, [et nous avons voulu le juger selon notre loi; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | welcher auch versucht hat, den Tempel zu entheiligen, den wir auch ergriffen haben und nach unserem Gesetz richten wollten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | qui etiam templum violare conatus est, quem et apprehensum voluimus secundum legem nostram judicare. |