Seeing that thou canst take knowledge (δυναμενου σου επιγνωνα). Genitive absolute again. The same word and form (επιγνωνα) used by…

Because you may understand. The Greek is, "You being able to know." That is, he could understand or know by considering the proper evidenc…

I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.—This was, by implication, St. Paul’s answer to the charge of the attempted profanation. One who had…

In refuting the charges against him, Paul dealt with each in turn. First, it was “no more than twelve days ago” that he came to Jerusalem, not for …

To worship. First, it is certain that he came for other reasons, and he will afterward confess that the chief reason was to bring alms for…

Because that thou mayest understand
By what Paul now asserted, and by the witnesses which he could produce to certif…

Paul gives a just account of himself, which clears him from crime and also shows the true reason for the violence against him. Let us never be driv…