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John Gill's Exposition on Acts 24:11
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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Because that thou mayest understand, etc.] By what Paul now asserted, and by the witnesses which he could produce to certify the truth of it: that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship; that is, from the time that he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem, to the present time, in which he stood before Felix, pleading his own cause; which may be reckoned, thus, he came in one day from Caesarea to Jerusalem, (<442116>Acts 21:16,17) the next day he visited James and the elders, (<442118>Acts 21:18) on the third day he purified himself in the temple, (<442126>Acts 21:26) where he was taken and used ill by the Jews; on the fourth day, he was brought before the sanhedrim, and defended himself, (<442230>Acts 22:30) on the fifth day forty Jews conspire to take away his life, (<442311>Acts 23:11), on the sixth day he came to Caesarea, being sent there by Lysias, (<442332>Acts 23:32) and five days after this, which make eleven, Ananias, and the elders, with Tertullus, came down to accuse him; and this day was the twelfth, on which his trial came on. And of these twelve days he was a prisoner nine, and therefore could not have done so much mischief, and stirred up so much sedition as was insinuated; and in opposition to the charge of profaning the temple, he observes that he came up to Jerusalem to “worship”; namely, at the feast of Pentecost.
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