Charles Ellicott Commentary Acts 24:20

"Or else let these men themselves say what wrong-doing they found when I stood before the council," — Acts 24:20 (ASV)

If they have found any evil doing in me . . .—The better manuscripts read, “what evil thing” (or, what wrong act) “they found in me.” This, from St. Paul’s point of view, was the only instance where any of his words had even been the occasion of an uproar, and in them he had only proclaimed a belief which he held in common with their best and wisest teachers. So far as the proceedings before the Council were concerned, he had not even addressed the question of the Messiahship or the resurrection of the Lord Jesus.