Acts 24:19

19 they ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, 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 Now after some years I came to bring to my nation alms and offerings.

18 As I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But some Jews from Asia--

19 they ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, if they have anything against me.

20 Or else let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found when I stood before the council,

21 except this one thing which I cried out while standing among them, 'With respect to the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you this day.'"