Acts 24:17
“Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.”
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
Counter-Arguments
The strongest case that this verse does not belong in this theme.
Cross-References
“But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.”
“Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.”
“Praying us with much intreaty that we would receive the gift, and take upon us the fellowship of the ministering to the saints.”
“Only they would that we should remember the poor; the same which I also was forward to do.”
“From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia my suppliants, even the daughter of my dispersed, shall bring mine offering.”