When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.
Acts 24:12 - New Revised Standard Version They did not find me disputing with anyone in the temple or stirring up a crowd either in the synagogues or throughout the city. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man, or causing any concourse of the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: |
When they came to the disciples, they saw a great crowd around them, and some scribes arguing with them.
Why do you ask me? Ask those who heard what I said to them; they know what I said.”
While I was doing this, they found me in the temple, completing the rite of purification, without any crowd or disturbance.
We have, in fact, found this man a pestilent fellow, an agitator among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Paul said in his defense, “I have in no way committed an offense against the law of the Jews, or against the temple, or against the emperor.”
Three days later he called together the local leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, he said to them, “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, yet I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.