For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
Parallel translations
- KJV For ye have brought hither these men, which are neither robbers of churches, nor yet blasphemers of your goddess.
- BSB For you have brought these men here, though they have neither robbed our temple nor blasphemed our goddess.
- NKJV For you have brought these men here who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
- NASB For you have brought these men here who are neither temple robbers nor blasphemers of our goddess.
- NLT You have brought these men here, but they have stolen nothing from the temple and have not spoken against our goddess.
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Quick answer
The clerk noted that Paul's companions were neither temple-robbers nor blasphemers of the goddess.
Overview
He publicly testified that the Christians had committed no crime against the temple or its goddess. This official acknowledgment of their innocence echoes Luke's recurring theme that Christianity poses no real threat to civil order. It vindicates the gospel messengers before the whole city.
Cross-references & the web
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- Rom 2:22You who say a man shouldn’t commit adultery. Do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
- 2 Cor 6:3We give no occasion of stumbling in anything, that our service may not be blamed,
- 1 Cor 10:32Give no occasion for stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the assembly of God;
- Acts 25:8while he said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all.”
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