Acts 24:19

19 They ought to have been here before you, and to have been my prosecutors, if they have any charge to bring 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 an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.

18 While I was busy about these, they found me in the Temple purified, with no crowd around me and no uproar; but there were certain Jews from the province of Asia.

19 They ought to have been here before you, and to have been my prosecutors, if they have any charge to bring against me.

20 Or let these men themselves say what misdemeanour they found me guilty of when I stood before the Sanhedrin,

21 unless it was in that one expression which I made use of when I shouted out as I stood among them, "`The resurrection of the dead is the thing about which I am on my trial before you to-day.'"