King James Version
Acts 24:20 in the King James Version says “Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,” — study this verse from Acts chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,”
Acts 24:20 · KJV
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.
Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
Except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day.
And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
KJV Study — Public Domain
the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“stood”
G2476to stand (transitively or intransitively), used in various applications (literally or figuratively)
“before”
G1909properly, meaning superimposition (of time, place, order, etc.), as a relation of distribution (with the genitive case), i.e., over, upon, etc.; of re
“the council”
G4892a joint session, i.e., (specially), the jewish sanhedrin; by analogy, a subordinate tribunal
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