Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
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Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
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Nether can they prove the thinges wher of they accuse me.
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Neither can they proue the things, whereof they now accuse me.
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Passages linked to Acts 24:13 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Acts 25:7 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,
- 1 Peter 3:16 having a good conscience. Thus, while you are spoken against as evildoers, they may be disappointed who curse your good way of life in Christ.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain They cannot lay forth before thee and prove by…
They cannot lay forth before thee and prove by good reasons.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain 13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they…
13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
Ver. 13. Neither can they prove the things] And if to be barely accused be sufficient to make a man guilty, no man shall be innocent. It is happy if we can write (as the Lady Elizabeth did in Woodstock windows),
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"Much alleged against me:
Nothing proved can be."
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain They could not prove either of those crimes they…
They could not prove either of those crimes they charged him with, viz.
1. Raising of sedition; or,
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2. Profaning of the temple, which they had accused him of.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Neither can they prove the things whereof they now…
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. As that he was a pestilent fellow, a mover of sedition, and a profaner of the temple these things they could not set forth in any clear light, and bring testimonies, or give demonstration of; they could not make them appear to be true, which it lay upon them to do, or otherwise in course he ought be acquitted: this was challenging and defying them to make good their assertions.
Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me. As that he was a pestilent fellow, a mover of sedition, and a profaner of the temple these things they could not set forth in any clear light, and bring testimonies, or give demonstration of; they could not make them appear to be true, which it lay upon them to do, or otherwise in course he ought be acquitted: this was challenging and defying them to make good their assertions.
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Acts 24:14
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act 24:14But this I confess unto thee,.... What was truth he was not ashamed of, but ready to own, and bear his testimony for, whatever was the consequence of it:
that after the way which they call heresy; referring to the charge of his being a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, Act 24:5 and meaning by the way the Christian religion, or the doctrines of Christianity, which the Jews called heresy; and as early as this were the Christians, by them, called heretics: so we read (r) of , "a prayer against the heretics", which Samuel (the little) composed before, or in the presence of R. Gamaliel the elder, he approving of it; which R. Gamaliel was Paul's master; and some have thought, that Samuel the little, the composer of this prayer, was Saul himself; so that he knew very well that the Christian doctrine was called heresy, and the Christians heretics, for he had called them so himself in the time of his unregeneracy; but now he was not ashamed to profess that way, and walk in it, and according to it worship God, as follows:
so worship I the God of my fathers; even Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, suggesting, that by embracing Christianity, he had not denied, and gone off from the worship of the one, only, living, and true God, the God of Israel; and that there was an entire agreement between the saints of the Old Testament, and the Christians of the New, in the object of worship; the Vulgate Latin version reads, "so serve I the Father, and my God"; that is, God the Father, who is the Father of Christ, and the God and Father of believers in him:
believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets; which the Sadducees did not; and strictly adhering to these, and not to the traditions of the elders, as did the Scribes and Pharisees; so that since he believed whatever was contained in the sacred writings, he could not be charged justly with heresy; and as he believed, so he taught nothing but what was agreeably to the Scriptures of the Old Testament.
(r) Ganz Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 25. 2. Vid. T. Bab. Beracot, fol. 28. 2. & 29. 1. Maimon. Hilch. Tephilla, c. 2. sect. 1.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain Neither can they prove the things ... - That…
Neither can they prove the things ... - That is, that I am a mover of sedition, or a disturber of the peace of the people. This appeal he boldly makes; he challenges investigation; and as they did not offer to specify any acts of disorder or tumult excited by him, this charge falls of course.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 13. neither can they prove (Rev. Ver., with MS.…
13. neither can they prove (Rev. Ver., with MS. authority, adds to thee) the things, &c.] The proof must be such as the law required, not the mere multiplied assertions of the accusers. The verb implies a formal setting-forth of evidence, and is used by Josephus (De vita sua, 6) of an array of proof which he has set forth to shew that his fellow-countrymen did not enter on a war till they were forced.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain Prove to thee for prove, A.V. Prove (parasthsai); see…
Prove to thee for prove, A.V. Prove (parasthsai); see Act_1:3, note.
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J. W. McGarvey 1914 · Public Domain See notes on verse 10
See notes on verse 10
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