Acts 24:19 Parallel Translations

But some Jews from the province of Asia were there. They should be here in front of you to accuse me if they have anything against me.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.

ASV:

who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me.

BBE:

And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.

DBY:

who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have anything against me;

ERV:

who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me.

WEY:

They ought to have been here before you, and to have been my prosecutors, if they have any charge to bring against me.

WBS:

Who ought to have been here before thee, and object if they had aught against me.

WEB:

They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

YLT:

whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

Acts 24:19 Cross References

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Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

24:19 Who ought to have been here. These foreign Jews were the legal accusers. The Sanhedrin was a court of trial, and its members present were not the accusers. The Roman custom required the accusers to face the accused.

WES:

24:19 Who ought to have been present before thee - But the world never commit greater blunders, even against its own laws, than when it is persecuting the children of God.

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:

Accusation Accuse Anything Appear Asia Aught Behoveth Better Bring Charge Charges Object Ought Present Prosecutors Province Statement

Accusation Accuse Appear Asia Aught Behoveth Better Charge Charges Jews Object Ought Present Province Statement

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