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PARALLEL BIBLE - Acts 24:14


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King James Bible - Acts 24:14

But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

World English Bible

But this I confess to you, that after the Way, which they call a sect, so I serve the God of our fathers, believing all things which are according to the law, and which are written in the prophets;

Douay-Rheims - Acts 24:14

But this I confess to thee, that according to the way, which they call a heresy, so do I serve the Father and my God, believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets:

Webster's Bible Translation

But this I confess to thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:

Greek Textus Receptus


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VERSE (14) - Ps 119:46 Mt 10:32

SEV Biblia, Chapter 24:14

Pero esto te confieso, que conforme a aquel Camino que ellos llaman secta, así sirvo al Dios de mi patria, creyendo todas las cosas que en la ley y en los profetas estn escritas;

Clarke's Bible Commentary - Acts 24:14

Verse 14. That after the way which they call heresy] See the explanation of this word in the note on chap. v. 17, and see before, ver. 5, where what is here translated heresy, is there rendered sect. At this time the word had no bad acceptation, in reference to religious opinions. The Pharisees themselves, the most respectable body among the Jews, are called a sect; for Paul, defending himself before Agrippa, says that he lived a Pharisee according to the strictest airesin, sect, or heresy of their religion. And Josephus, who was a Pharisee, speaks, thv twn farisaiwn airesewv, of the heresy or sect of the Pharisees. LIFE, chap. xxxviii. Therefore it is evident that the word heresy had no bad meaning among the Jews; it meant simply a religious sect. Why then did they use it by way of degradation to St. Paul? This seems to have been the cause. They had already two accredited sects in the land, the Pharisees and Sadducees: the interests of each of these were pretty well balanced, and each had a part in the government, for the council, or Sanhedrin, was composed both of Sadducees and Pharisees: see chap. xxiii. 6. They were afraid that the Christians, whom they called Nazarenes, should form a new sect, and divide the interests of both the preceding; and what they feared, that they charged them with; and, on this account, the Christians had both the Pharisees and the Sadducees for their enemies. They had charged Jesus Christ with plotting against the state, and endeavouring to raise seditions; and they charged his followers with the same. This they deemed a proper engine to bring a jealous government into action.

So worship I the God of my fathers] I bring in no new object of worship; no new religious creed. I believe all things as they profess to believe; and acknowledge the Law and the Prophets as divinely inspired books; and have never, in the smallest measure, detracted from the authority or authenticity of either.

John Gill's Bible Commentary

Ver. 14. But this I confess unto thee , etc.] What was truth he was not ashamed of, but ready to own, and bear his testimony for, whatever was the consequence of it: that after the way which they call heresy ; referring to the charge of his being a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, ( Acts 24:5) and meaning by the way the Christian religion, or the doctrines of Christianity, which the Jews called heresy; and as early as this were the Christians, by them, called heretics: so we read of ynymh tkrb , a prayer against the heretics, which Samuel (the little) composed before, or in the presence of R. Gamaliel the elder, he approving of it; which R. Gamaliel was Pauls master; and some have thought, that Samuel the little, the composer of this prayer, was Saul himself; so that he knew very well that the Christian doctrine was called heresy, and the Christians heretics, for he had called them so himself in the time of his unregeneracy; but now he was not ashamed to profess that way, and walk in it, and according to it worship God, as follows: so worship I the God of my fathers ; even Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, suggesting, that by embracing Christianity, he had not denied, and gone off from the worship of the one, only, living, and true God, the God of Israel; and that there was an entire agreement between the saints of the Old Testament, and the Christians of the New, in the object of worship; the Vulgate Latin version reads, so serve I the Father, and my God; that is, God the Father, who is the Father of Christ, and the God and Father of believers in him: believing all things which are written in the law and the prophets ; which the Sadducees did not; and strictly adhering to these, and not to the traditions of the elders, as did the Scribes and Pharisees; so that since he believed whatever was contained in the sacred writings, he could not be charged justly with heresy; and as he believed, so he taught nothing but what was agreeably to the Scriptures of the Old Testament.

Matthew Henry Commentary

Verses 10-21 - Paul gives a just account of himself, which clears him from crime, an likewise shows the true reason of the violence against him. Let u never be driven from any good way by its having an ill name. It is very comfortable, in worshipping God, to look to him as the God of ou fathers, and to set up no other rule of faith or practice but the Scriptures. This shows there will be a resurrection to a fina judgment. Prophets and their doctrines were to be tried by their fruits. Paul's aim was to have a conscience void of offence. His car and endeavour was to abstain from many things, and to abound in the exercises of religion at all times; both towards God. and towards man If blamed for being more earnest in the things of God than ou neighbours, what is our reply? Do we shrink from the accusation? Ho many in the world would rather be accused of any weakness, nay, even of wickedness, than of an earnest, fervent feeling of love to the Lor Jesus Christ, and of devotedness to his service! Can such think that He will confess them when he comes in his glory, and before the angels of God? If there is any sight pleasing to the God of our salvation, and sight at which the angels rejoice, it is, to behold a devoted followe of the Lord, here upon earth, acknowledging that he is guilty, if it be a crime, of loving the Lord who died for him, with all his heart, an soul, and mind, and strength. And that he will not in silence see God' word despised, or hear his name profaned; he will rather risk the ridicule and the hatred of the world, than one frown from that graciou Being whose love is better than life.

Greek Textus Receptus


ομολογω 3670 5719 V-PAI-1S δε 1161 CONJ τουτο 5124 D-ASN σοι 4671 P-2DS οτι 3754 CONJ κατα 2596 PREP την 3588 T-ASF οδον 3598 N-ASF ην 3739 R-ASF λεγουσιν 3004 5719 V-PAI-3P αιρεσιν 139 N-ASF ουτως 3779 ADV λατρευω 3000 5719 V-PAI-1S τω 3588 T-DSM πατρωω 3971 A-DSM θεω 2316 N-DSM πιστευων 4100 5723 V-PAP-NSM πασιν 3956 A-DPN τοις 3588 T-DPN κατα 2596 PREP τον 3588 T-ASM νομον 3551 N-ASM και 2532 CONJ τοις 3588 T-DPM προφηταις 4396 N-DPM γεγραμμενοις 1125 5772 V-RPP-DPN

Vincent's NT Word Studies

14. The way. See on ch. ix. 2.

A sect. See on verse 5. The word is commonly used in an indifferent sense, as signifying merely a school or party. So ch. xv. 5; xxviii. 29. Here, however, in a bad sense - a schisomatic sect, as in 1 Cor. xi. 19.

Worship (latreuw). Better, as Rev., serve. See on Luke i. 74.

God of my fathers (tw patrww Qew). A familiar classical phrase, and therefore well known to Felix. Thus Demosthenes calls Apollo the patrwov (ancestral God) of Athens. Socrates is asked (Plato, "Euthydemus," 302), "Have you an ancestral Zeus (Zeuv patrwov)? So, frequently, in the classics. Similarly, the Roman phrase, Di patrii, "the gods of the forefathers." On the Roman reverence for the ancestral religion, see note on ch. xvi. 21. The Roman's own sentiment would prepare him to respect Paul's.

Robertson's NT Word Studies

24:14 {I confess} (homologw). The only charge left was that of being a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes. this Paul frankly confesses is true. He uses the word in its full sense. He is "guilty" of that. {After the Way} (kata ten hodon). this word Paul had already applied to Christianity (#22:4). He prefers it to "sect" (hairesin which means a choosing, qen a division). Paul claims Christianity to be the real (whole, catholic) Judaism, not a "sect" of it. But he will show that Christianity is not a deviation from Judaism, but the fulfilment of it (Page) as he has already shown in #Ga 3; Ro 9. {So serve I the God of our fathers} (houtws latreuw twi patrwiwi qewi). Paul has not stretched the truth at all. He has confirmed the claim made before the Sanhedrin that he is a spiritual Pharisee in the truest sense (#23:6). He reasserts his faith in all the law and the prophets, holding to the Messianic hope. A curious "heretic" surely! {Which these themselves also look for} (hen kai autoi houtoi prosdecontai). Probably with a gesture towards his accusers. He does not treat them all as Sadducees. See #Tit 2:13 for similar use of the verb (prosdecomenoi ten makarian elpida, looking for the happy hope).

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