Acts 24:12 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹² [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.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² And neither in the temple nor in the synagogues nor in the city did they find me disputing with anybody or bringing together a seditious crowd.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² 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.

Common English Bible

¹² They didn’t find me arguing with anyone in the temple or stirring up a crowd, whether in the synagogue or anywhere else in the city.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² And they did not find me in the temple arguing with anyone, nor causing a rally of the people: neither in the synagogues, nor in the city.

Acts 24:12 Cross References

Acts 25:8

Paul replied in his defense, “I have not committed any sin against the law of the Jews, nor against the Temple, nor against Caesar.”

Acts 28:17

And it happened after three days that Paul called together those who were the leading Jews, and when they assembled he said to them, “Brothers, although I had done nothing against the [Jewish] people or the customs of our forefathers, yet I was made a prisoner at Jerusalem, being placed in the custody of the Romans [while there].

Acts 24:18

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

Acts 24:5

We have found this man [i.e., Paul] to be extremely bothersome, and an instigator of strife among the Jews throughout the world and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Mark 9:14

And when Peter, James and John [See verse 2] returned to [the rest of] the disciples, they saw a large crowd gathered around them, and the experts in the Law of Moses disputing with them.

John 18:21

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.”