the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Acts 24:17
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"I had been away for a couple of years and just returned with money to help my people and to offer sacrifices to God.
"Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings;
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings;
Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:
And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.
"Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,
After many years, I came to bring charitable gifts and offerings to my nation,
Now after some years, I came to bring gifts to the needy to my nation, and offerings;
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings.
"Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.
Now after many yeeres, I came to bring almes to my nation, & offrings:
And after many years I arrived doing alms and offerings to my nation,
But after many yeares I came and broughte allmesse vnto my people, and offeringes:
after several years absence I came to Jerusalem, with contributions for my brethren, and oblations for the temple:
"Now after several years I came [to Jerusalem] to bring to my people charitable contributions and offerings.
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:
Now after some years I came to bring to my nation alms and offerings.
But after many yeres I came and brought almes to my people and offeringes
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:
Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,
"After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went back to bring money to my people and to offer sacrifices.
After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,
After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.
After being away for several years, I returned here to bring gifts for the poor people of my nation and to offer sacrifices.
"After an absence of several years, I came to Yerushalayim to bring a charitable gift to my nation and to offer sacrifices.
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.
Now after many yeres, I came & brought almes to my nation and offerings.
Now after many years, I came to my own people to distribute alms and to present an offering.
Now after some years, I came to bring gifts to the needy to my nation, and offerings;
After many years I have come back to my people to bring gifts for the poor and to offer sacrifices.Acts 11:29-30; 20:16; Romans 15:25; 2 Corinthians 8:4; Galatians 2:10;">[xr]
But after many years I came to the sons of my people to bestow alms, and to present an oblation.
And, after many years, I came to the people of my own nation, to impart alms, and to present an offering.
"After several years away, I returned to Jerusalem with money to aid my people and to offer sacrifices to God.
"After a few years I came to bring gifts of money to the people of my country (Jerusalem).
Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation and to offer sacrifices.
Now, after many years, intending to do, alms, unto my nation, I arrived, - also to present offerings; among which they found me, purified in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with tumult;
Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings and vows.
So after many years, I came to practice charitable giving and offerings to my people,
Nowe after many yeres, I came and brought almes to my nation, and offerynges:
"I was away from Jerusalem for many years. I went back there to take money to help my people. I also had some gifts to offer at the Temple. I was doing this when some Jews saw me there. I had finished the cleansing ceremony. I had not made any trouble, and no one was gathering around me.
"Now after several years I came to bring charitable gifts to my nation and to present offerings,
"After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went there to take some money to my own people and to offer sacrifices.
But after many yeeris, Y cam to do almes dedis to my folc, and offryngis, and auowis;
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
to bring: Acts 11:29, Acts 11:30, Acts 20:16, Romans 15:25, Romans 15:26, 1 Corinthians 16:1, 1 Corinthians 16:2, 2 Corinthians 8:9, Galatians 2:10
offerings: Acts 21:26
Reciprocal: Ezra 1:4 - let the men Isaiah 60:5 - forces Zephaniah 3:10 - General Zechariah 6:10 - which Matthew 6:2 - when Luke 11:41 - rather Acts 19:21 - to go Acts 23:5 - I wist Acts 24:11 - to worship Acts 25:8 - Neither 2 Corinthians 8:4 - the ministering
Cross-References
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the Lord had blessed Abraham in all things.
And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my son thither again.
The Lord God of heaven, which took me from my father's house, and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
And the servant ran to meet her, and said, Let me, I pray thee, drink a little water of thy pitcher.
And she said, Drink, my lord: and she hasted, and let down her pitcher upon her hand, and gave him drink.
And the Lord hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.
So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink.
The inhabitants of the land of Tema brought water to him that was thirsty, they prevented with their bread him that fled.
And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them shall lead them, even by the springs of water shall he guide them.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now after many years,.... Absence from Jerusalem; it was now about five and twenty years since his conversion, and most of this time he spent among the Gentiles; three years after it he went up to Jerusalem, and fourteen years after that, Galatians 1:18 but it had now been some years since he had been there:
I came to bring alms to my nation; the collections which were made among the Gentile churches, particularly in Macedonia, for the poor saints at Jerusalem, Romans 15:25.
and offerings; either for the day of Pentecost, according to the usages of that feast, or the offerings on the account of the vow of the Nazarite, Acts 21:26. The Vulgate Latin version adds, "and vows"; unless the spiritual and evangelical sacrifices of prayer and praise can be thought to be meant, since the ceremonial law was now abrogated; though it is manifest the apostle did at some times, and in some cases, comply with the Jews in the observance of it, in order to gain some.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Now after many years - After many years’ absence. Paul here commences a reply to the charge of Tentullus, that he had endeavored to profane the temple, Acts 24:6. He begins by saying that his design in coming up to Jerusalem was to bring to his countrymen needed aid in a time of distress. It would be absurd to suppose, therefore, that his object in coming was to violate the customs of the temple, and to defile it.
I came to bring - See Acts 11:29-30; compare the notes on Romans 15:25-26.
Alms - Charities; the gift of the churches.
To my nation - Not to all the nation, but to the poor saints or Christians who were in Judea, and who were suffering much by persecutions and trials.
And offerings - The word used here properly denotes “an offering or gift” of any kind; but it is usually applied to an oblation or offering made to God in the temple - “a thank-offering, a sacrifice.” This is probably its meaning here. He came to bring aid to his needy countrymen, and an offering to God; and it was, therefore, no part of his purpose to interfere with, or to profane the worship of the temple.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 24:17. Now, after many years, &c.] And as a full proof that I act according to the dictates of this Divine and beneficent creed, though I have been many years absent from my own country, and my political relation to it is almost necessarily dissolved, yet, far from coming to disturb the peace of society, or to injure any person, I have brought ALMS to my nation, the fruits of my own earning and influence among a foreign people, and OFFERINGS to my God and his temple, proving hereby my attachment to my country, and my reverence for the worship of my country's God.
