“Then also he casts out their person: but, says he, they that found me, were certain Jews from Asia, who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me. He also does well to challenge his accusers who were from Asia, Who ought to accuse before thee, etc., but he does well also not to reje…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Acts 50
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19Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
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17Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
18Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
— Acts 24:19 —
20Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,
21Except 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.