Acts 24:17

Green's Literal Translation

And after many years I arrived doing alms and offerings to my nation,

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
After many years, I came to bring charitable gifts and offerings to my people.

King James Version (1611)
Now after many yeeres, I came to bring almes to my nation, & offrings:

King James Version
Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

English Standard Version
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.

New American Standard Bible
"Now after several years I came to bring charitable gifts to my nation and to present offerings,

New Century Version
"After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went back to bring money to my people and to offer sacrifices.

Amplified Bible
"Now after several years I came [to Jerusalem] to bring to my people charitable contributions and offerings.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings;

Legacy Standard Bible
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings;

Berean Standard Bible
After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.

Contemporary English Version
After being away for several years, I returned here to bring gifts for the poor people of my nation and to offer sacrifices.

Complete Jewish Bible
"After an absence of several years, I came to Yerushalayim to bring a charitable gift to my nation and to offer sacrifices.

Darby Translation
And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.

Easy-to-Read Version
"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.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Now after many yeres, I came & brought almes to my nation and offerings.

George Lamsa Translation
Now after many years, I came to my own people to distribute alms and to present an offering.

Good News Translation
"After being away from Jerusalem for several years, I went there to take some money to my own people and to offer sacrifices.

Lexham English Bible
So after many years, I came to practice charitable giving and offerings to my people,

American Standard Version
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

Bible in Basic English
Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:

Hebrew Names Version
Now after some years, I came to bring gifts to the needy to my nation, and offerings;

International Standard Version
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]

Etheridge Translation
But after many years I came to the sons of my people to bestow alms, and to present an oblation.

Murdock Translation
And, after many years, I came to the people of my own nation, to impart alms, and to present an offering.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe after many yeres, I came and brought almes to my nation, and offerynges:

English Revised Version
Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

World English Bible
Now after some years, I came to bring gifts to the needy to my nation, and offerings;

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings.

Weymouth's New Testament
"Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
But after many yeeris, Y cam to do almes dedis to my folc, and offryngis, and auowis;

Update Bible Version
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:

Webster's Bible Translation
Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

New English Translation
After several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,

New King James Version
"Now after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation,

New Living Translation
"After several years away, I returned to Jerusalem with money to aid my people and to offer sacrifices to God.

New Life Bible
"After a few years I came to bring gifts of money to the people of my country (Jerusalem).

New Revised Standard
Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation and to offer sacrifices.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
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;

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings and vows.

Revised Standard Version
Now after some years I came to bring to my nation alms and offerings.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
But after many yeres I came and brought almes to my people and offeringes

Young's Literal Translation
`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But after many yeares I came and broughte allmesse vnto my people, and offeringes:

Mace New Testament (1729)
after several years absence I came to Jerusalem, with contributions for my brethren, and oblations for the temple:

Simplified Cowboy Version
"I had been away for a couple of years and just returned with money to help my people and to offer sacrifices to God.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ But the governor signaling to him to speak, Paul answered: Understanding you as being a judge to this nation many years, I cheerfully defend myself as to the things concerning myself. ¹¹ You are able to know that not more than twelve days are to me since I went worshiping in Jerusalem; ¹² and neither did they find me reasoning with anyone in the temple, or making a gathering of a crowd, neither in the synagogues, nor throughout the city; ¹³ nor are they able to prove that concerning which they now accuse me. ¹⁴ But I confess this to you that according to the Way, which they say is a sect, so I worship the ancestral God believing all things according to that having been written in the Law and the Prophets, ¹⁵ having hope toward God, which these themselves also admit, of a resurrection being about to be of the dead, both of just and unjust ones. ¹⁶ And in this I exercise myself to have always a blameless conscience toward God and men. ¹⁷ And after many years I arrived doing alms and offerings to my nation, ¹⁸ among which they found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd, nor with tumult, but by some Jews from Asia, ¹⁹ who ought to be present before you and to accuse if they have anything against me.

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

Genesis 24:1
And Abraham was old, going on in days, and Jehovah had blessed Abraham in all things.

Genesis 24:6
And Abraham said to him, Take heed for yourself that you not take my son back there.

Genesis 24:7
Jehovah, God of Heaven, who took me from the house of my father and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to your Seed; He shall send His Angel before you, and you shall take a wifefrom there for my son.

Genesis 24:17
And the slave ran to meet her and said, Please let me sip a little water from your pitcher.

Genesis 24:18
And she said, Drink, my lord. And she hurried and let down her pitcher on her hand and gave him a drink.

Genesis 24:35
And Jehovah has blessed my master much, and he is great. And He has given to him flocks and herds, and silver and gold, and male slaves and slave-girls, and camels and asses.

1 Kings 17:10
And he rose up and went to Zarephath, and came in to the entrance of the city; and, behold, a widow woman was gathering sticks. And he called to her and said, Please bring to me a little water in a vessel, and I shall drink.

Isaiah 21:14
The people of the land of Tema bring water to him who is thirsty; they went to meet the fugitive with his bread.

Isaiah 30:25
And on every high mountain, and on every high hill, shall be rivulets lifted up, streams of water, in a day of great slaying, when towers fall.

Isaiah 49:10
They shall not hunger nor thirst; and the heat and sun shall not strike them. For He who has mercy on them shall lead them; and He shall guide them by the springs of water.

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.