John Gill's Exposition on Acts 24:17

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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Now after many years, etc.] Absence from Jerusalem; it was now about five and twenty years since his conversion, and most of this time he spent among the Gentiles; three years after it he went up to Jerusalem, and fourteen years after that, (<480118>Galatians 1:18, 2:1) but it had now been some years since he had been there: I came to bring alms to my nation; the collections which were made among the Gentile churches, particularly in Macedonia, for the poor saints at Jerusalem, ( <451525>Romans 15:25-27, <470801>2 Corinthians 8:1-4). and offerings; either for the day of Pentecost, according to the usages of that feast, or the offerings on the account of the vow of the Nazarite, (<442126>Acts 21:26). The Vulgate Latin version adds, “and vows”; unless the spiritual and evangelical sacrifices of prayer and praise can be thought to be meant, since the ceremonial law was now abrogated; though it is manifest the apostle did at some times, and in some cases, comply with the Jews in the observance of it, in order to gain some.

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