Acts 24:17 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

After many years I have come back to my people and brought gifts for the poor and offerings for God.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

ASV:

Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

BBE:

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

DBY:

And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.

ERV:

Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

WEY:

"Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.

WBS:

Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

WEB:

Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;

YLT:

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

Acts 24:17 Cross References

XREF:

Acts 11:29 And in the proportion that any of the disciples had means, each of them determined to send a contribution for the relief of the brethren living in Judea.

Acts 20:31 "Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.

Romans 15:25 but now, I am going to Jerusalem serving the saints.

1 Corinthians 16:1 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I directed the churches of Galatia, so do you also.

2 Corinthians 8:1 Now, brethren, we wish to make known to you the grace of God which has been given in the churches of Macedonia,

2 Corinthians 9:1 For it is superfluous for me to write to you about this ministry to the saints;

2 Corinthians 9:2 for I know your readiness, of which I boast about you to the Macedonians, namely, that Achaia has been prepared since last year, and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

Galatians 2:10 They only asked us to remember the poor-- the very thing I also was eager to do. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

24:17 {4} Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
(4) Paul in conclusion tells the things thing which was truly done, which Tertullus before him had corrupted in various ways.

PNT:

24:17 Now after many years I came. Here he begins his reply to the third charge, that of profaning the temple. He came to Jerusalem with the most benevolent motives,
to bring alms to my own nation. These were sums of money gathered in the Gentile churches for the poor in Jerusalem. See Ro 15:25-31 1Co 16:1-4 2Co 8:9.
And offerings. Such as were customary at the temple. It was while engaged in the preparations for a Nazarite offering that he was seized. He thus accounts for his presence in the temple.

MHC:

24:10-21 Paul gives a just account of himself, which clears him from crime, and likewise shows the true reason of the violence against him. Let us never be driven from any good way by its having an ill name. It is very comfortable, in worshipping God, to look to him as the God of our fathers, and to set up no other rule of faith or practice but the Scriptures. This shows there will be a resurrection to a final judgment. Prophets and their doctrines were to be tried by their fruits. Paul's aim was to have a conscience void of offence. His care and endeavour was to abstain from many things, and to abound in the exercises of religion at all times; both towards God. and towards man. If blamed for being more earnest in the things of God than our neighbours, what is our reply? Do we shrink from the accusation? How many in the world would rather be accused of any weakness, nay, even of wickedness, than of an earnest, fervent feeling of love to the Lord Jesus Christ, and of devotedness to his service! Can such think that He will confess them when he comes in his glory, and before the angels of God? If there is any sight pleasing to the God of our salvation, and a sight at which the angels rejoice, it is, to behold a devoted follower of the Lord, here upon earth, acknowledging that he is guilty, if it be a crime, of loving the Lord who died for him, with all his heart, and soul, and mind, and strength. And that he will not in silence see God's word despised, or hear his name profaned; he will rather risk the ridicule and the hatred of the world, than one frown from that gracious Being whose love is better than life.

CONC:

Acts Alms Arrived Bring Bringing Gifts Interval Jerusalem Kind Lapse Nation Needy Offer Offerings Poor Present Sacrifices Several

Absence Acts Alms Arrived Gifts Help Interval Jerusalem Kind Lapse Nation Needy Offer Offerings Poor Present Sacrifices Several

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