17"After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings.
17"After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings.
14 However, I admit that I worship the God of our fathers as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that agrees with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,
15 and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
16 So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.
17 "After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings.
18 I was ceremonially clean when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.
19 But there are some Jews from the province of Asia, who ought to be here before you and bring charges if they have anything against me.
24:17Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
24:17Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings, and vows.
24:17Now after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:
24:17And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.
24:17Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:
24:17Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
24:17Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
24:17'And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,
24:17Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.