Acts Chapter 24 verse 17 Holy Bible

ASV Acts 24:17

Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:
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BBE Acts 24:17

Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:
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DARBY Acts 24:17

And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.
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KJV Acts 24:17

Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
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WBT Acts 24:17


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WEB Acts 24:17

Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
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YLT Acts 24:17

`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 17. - After many years; or, several years. St. Paul's last visit to Jerusalem was that mentioned in Acts 18:22. Since then he had spent "some time" (χρόνον τινά) at Antioch, had gone over all the country of Phrygia and Galatia, had come to Ephesus, and stopped between two and three years there, had gone through Macedonia, had spent three months at Corinth, had returned to Macedonia, and from thence had come to Jerusalem in about fifty days. All which must have occupied four or five years - from A.D. to A.D. - according to most chronologers. Evidently Paul had not been plotting seditious movements at Jerusalem, where he had only arrived twelve days before, for a purely benevolent and pious purpose, after an absence of four or five years Alms... and offerings. Those of which he speaks in 1 Corinthians 16:1-4; 2 Corinthians 8; Romans 15:25, 26, 31. To this may be added "the charges" for which he made himself answerable for the poor Nazarites (Acts 21:24, 26).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Now after many years.--Four years had passed since the previous visit of Acts 18:22. The use of "many" in this instance may be noted as throwing light on Acts 24:10.To bring alms to my nation, and offerings.--The "alms" were, of course, the large sums of money which St. Paul had been collecting, since his last visit, for the disciples (possibly in part, also, for those who were not disciples) at Jerusalem. It is noticeable that this is the only mention in the Acts of that which occupies so prominent a place in the Epistles of this period. (See Romans 15:25; 1Corinthians 16:1-4; 2Corinthians 8:1-4.) The manifestly undesigned coincidence between the Acts and the Epistles on this point has naturally often been dwelt on by writers on the evidences which each supplies to the other. The "offerings" were the sacrifices which the Apostle was about to offer on the completion of the Nazarite vow with which he had associated himself. There is, perhaps, a refined courtesy in St. Paul's use of the word "nation" (commonly used only of the heathen) instead of the more usual "people." He avoids the term which would have implied a certain assumption of superiority to the magistrate before whom he stood. (See Notes on Matthew 25:32; Matthew 28:19.) . . .