Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
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Gill's Exposition
Who also hath gone about to profane the temple,.... By introducing a Greek into it; see Act 21:28 which was only a supposition and conjecture of the Asiatic Jews, and was a false and groundless one:…
Barnes' Notes
Who also hath gone about - Who has endeavored. To profane the temple - This was a serious, but unfounded charge. It arose from the gross calumny of the Jews, when they pretended that he had introduced…
Adam Clarke
Hath gone about to profane the temple - This was a heavy charge, if it could have been substantiated, because the Jews were permitted by the Romans to put any person to death who profaned their…
We must suppose that Lysias, the chief captain, when he had sent away Paul to Caesarea, gave notice to the chief priests, and others that had appeared against Paul, that if they had any thing to…
Cambridge Bible
who also hath gone about[who moreover assayed R. V. to profane the temple The old English "gone about" was equivalent to "attempted." Cp. Shaks. Mids. Nt. D. iv. 1. 212: "Man is but an ass, if he go…
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