Acts 24:17

Acts 24:17 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
• New International Version (NIV)“After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
• New Living Translation (NLT)“After several years away, I returned to Jerusalem with money to aid my people and to offer sacrifices to God.

Context of Acts 24:17

15I have hope in God, which they themselves also accept, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust. 16This being so, I myself always strive to have a conscience without offense toward God and men. “Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation, 18in the midst of which some Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with a mob nor with tumult. 19They ought to have been here before you to object if they had anything against me.

Acts 24:17 word by word

δι᾽ ἐτῶν δὲ πλειόνων ἐλεημοσύνας ποιήσων εἰς τὸ ἔθνος μου παρεγενόμην καὶ προσφοράς,Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Nowδέde · thenG1161
• afterδιάdia · through/because ofG1223
• manyπλείων, πλεῖονpleiōn pleion pleon · greaterG4119
• yearsἔτοςetos · yearG2094
• I cameπαραγίνομαιparaginomai · to comeG3854
• to bringποιέωpoieō · to do/make: doG4160
• almsἐλεημοσύνηeleēmosunē · charityG1654
• toεἰςeis · towardG1519
• myἐγώegō · I/weG1473
• nationὁho hē to · the/this/whoG3588
• nationἔθνοςethnos · GentilesG1484
• andκαίkai · andG2532
• offeringsπροσφοράprosphora · offeringG4376

Cross-references for Acts 24:17

• Acts 11:29Then the disciples, each according to his ability, determined to send relief to the brethren dwelling in Judea.
• Acts 20:16For Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus, so that he would not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hurrying to be at Jerusalem, if possible, on the Day of Pentecost.
• Romans 15:25But now I am going to Jerusalem to minister to the saints.
• 1 Corinthians 16:1Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given orders to the churches of Galatia, so you must do also:
• 2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor, that you through His poverty might become rich.
• Galatians 2:10They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.
• Acts 21:26Then Paul took the men, and the next day, having been purified with them, entered the temple to announce the expiration of the days of purification, at which time an offering should be made for each one of them.

Commentaries on Acts 24:17

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 17Now, after many years, etc. - And as a full proof that I act according to the dictates of this Divine and beneficent creed, though I have been many years absent from my own country, and my political relation to it is almost necessarily dissolved, yet, far from coming to disturb the peace of society, or to injure any person, I have brought Alms to my nation, the fruits of my own earning and influence among a foreign people, and Offerings to my God and his…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17Now after many years - After many years‘ absence. Paul here commences a reply to the charge of Tentullus, that he had endeavored to profane the temple, Acts 24:6. He begins by saying that his design in coming up to Jerusalem was to bring to his countrymen needed aid in a time of distress. It would be absurd to suppose, therefore, that his object in coming was to violate the customs of the temple, and to defile it. I came to bring - See Acts 11:29-30…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-21Verses 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 17alms to my people: See study note on 20:1–2; also see Romans 15:25–29; 1 Corinthians 16:1–2; 2 Corinthians 9:1–7. to present offerings: See Acts 21:23–26.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1717. Now after many--several years absence from Jerusalem--I came to bring alms to my of Macedonia and Greece, which he had taken such pains to gather. This only allusion in the Acts to what is dwelt upon so frequently in his own Epistles (Ro 15:25, 26; 1Co 16:1-4; 2Co 8:1-4), throws a beautiful light on the truth of this History. (See Paley's Horæ Paulinæ). and offerings--connected with his Jewish vow: see Ac 24:18.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Acts 24

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Illustrated New Testament
• Burkitt’s Expository Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Family Bible Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• The People’s New Testament
• Robertson’s Word Pictures
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• The Fourfold Gospel and Commentary on Acts
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings