Acts 24:6

6 who even attempted to desecrate the temple, and we arrested {him}.

Acts 24:6 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 24:6

Who also hath gone about to profane the temple
By introducing a Greek into it; see ( Acts 21:28 Acts 21:29 ) which was only a supposition and conjecture of the Asiatic Jews, and was a false and groundless one:

whom we took;
as they did in the temple, and dragged him out of it:

and would have judged according to our law;
which was another untruth, for they had him not before any court of judicature; they brought no charge in form against him, nor did they examine his case, and inquire into the truth of things, or hear what he had to say, but fell upon him, and beat him; and if it had not been for the chief captain and his soldiers, would have destroyed him, so far were they from proceeding according to their law: it seems by Tertullus calling the law, "our law", that he was a Jewish proselyte; or else he speaks after the manner of lawyers, who call what is their clients, theirs.

Acts 24:6 In-Context

4 But so that I may not impose on you for longer, I implore you to hear us briefly with your [customary] graciousness.

5 For we have found this man [to be] a public menace and one who causes riots among all the Jews throughout the Roman Empire and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,

6 who even attempted to desecrate the temple, and we arrested {him}.

8 [When] you yourself examine [him] you will be able to find out from {him} about all these [things] of which we are accusing him."

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "whom"
• [b]. Some later manuscripts include the following additional material between v. 6 and v. 8: "and we wanted to judge him according to our law, (24:7) but Lysius the military tribune came and took him from our hands with much violence, (24:8) ordering his accusers to come before you."