Acts 24:19

19 But [there are] some Jews from Asia who ought to be present before you and bring charges against [me], if they have anything against me,

Acts 24:19 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 24:19

Who ought to have been here before thee
For they were the only persons who saw him in the temple, and what he was doing; and who by an hideous outcry raised a mob upon him, who took things upon hearsay from them:

and object, if they had ought against me;
either with respect to sedition, or blasphemy, error or heresy, if they were capable of proving anything.

Acts 24:19 In-Context

17 So after many years, I came to practice charitable giving and offerings to my people,

18 in which they found me purified in the temple [courts], not with a crowd or with a disturbance.

19 But [there are] some Jews from Asia who ought to be present before you and bring charges against [me], if they have anything against me,

20 or these [men] themselves should say what crime they found [when] I stood before the Sanhedrin,

21 other than concerning this one declaration that I shouted [while] standing there before them: 'I am being judged before you today concerning the resurrection of the dead!'"

Footnotes

• [a] A reference to the Roman province of Asia (modern Asia Minor)
• [b] *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation