Why are you asking me? Ask the people who have heard me about what I said to them. Look, these people know what I said.”
Acts 24:18 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition) While doing this, they [i.e., the Jews] found out that I had undergone the rites of purification in the Temple. There was no crowd and no commotion. But certain Jews from [the province of] Asia More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition While I was engaged in presenting these, they found me [occupied in the rites of purification] in the temple, without any crowd or uproar. But some Jews from [the province of] Asia [were there], American Standard Version (1901) amidst which they found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor yet with tumult: but there were certain Jews from Asia— Common English Bible When they found me in the temple, I was ritually pure. There was no crowd and no disturbance. Catholic Public Domain Version through which I obtained purification in the temple: neither with a crowd, nor with a commotion. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version In which I was found purified in the temple: neither with multitude, nor with tumult. |
Why are you asking me? Ask the people who have heard me about what I said to them. Look, these people know what I said.”
Parthians, Medes, Elamites, people from Mesopotamia, Judea, Cappodocia, Pontus, Asia,
Take these men and observe the ceremony of purification with them, pay their expenses so they can shave their heads [i.e., to signify that they are making a vow] and [then] everyone will know that there is no truth in what people have been told about you, but that you, too, are living properly and observing the Law of Moses.
[While there] I was not observed arguing with anyone or trying to stir up a crowd [to riot] in the Temple or in the synagogues or [anywhere else] in the city.
For this reason the Jews grabbed me in the Temple and attempted to kill me.
But several men from the synagogue, made up of freed slaves from Cyrene, Alexandria, Cilicia and Asia, began arguing with Stephen.