16 For this reason[a] also I myself always[b] do my best to have a clear conscience toward God and people. 17 So after many years, I came to practice charitable giving and offerings to my people,[c] 18 in which they found me purified in the temple courts,[d] not with a crowd or with a disturbance.

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 24:16 Literally “by this”
  2. Acts 24:16 Literally “through everything”
  3. Acts 24:17 Or “nation”
  4. Acts 24:18 *Here “courts” is supplied to distinguish this area from the interior of the temple building itself

16 So I strive always to keep my conscience clear(A) before God and man.

17 “After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor(B) and to present offerings. 18 I was ceremonially clean(C) when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.(D)

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