Acts 24:18 Cross References
Acts 24:18
18: My accusers saw me in the Temple as I was completing a purification ritual. There was no crowd around me and no rioting.
Acts 26:21
- Some Jews arrested me in the Temple for preaching this, and they tried to kill me.
Acts 21:26
- So Paul agreed to their request, and the next day he went through the purification ritual with the men and went to the Temple. Then he publicly announced the date when their vows would end and sacrifices would be offered for each of them.
- The seven days were almost ended when some Jews from the province of Asia saw Paul in the Temple and roused a mob against him. They grabbed him,
- yelling, "Men of Israel! Help! This is the man who teaches against our people and tells everybody to disobey the Jewish laws. He speaks against the Temple--and he even defiles it by bringing Gentiles in!"
- (For earlier that day they had seen him in the city with Trophimus, a Gentile from Ephesus, and they assumed Paul had taken him into the Temple.)
- The whole population of the city was rocked by these accusations, and a great riot followed. Paul was dragged out of the Temple, and immediately the gates were closed behind him.
Acts 24:12
- I didn't argue with anyone in the Temple, nor did I incite a riot in any synagogue or on the streets of the city.