39 Or “disputing,” “conducting a heated discussion.”
40 ἐπίστασις 2 has “ἐ. ποιεῖν ὄχλου to cause a crowd to gather Ac 24:12.” Roman authorities would not allow a mob to gather and threaten the peace, and anyone suspected of instigating a mob would certainly be arrested.
41 Grk “in the temple.” This is actually a reference to the courts surrounding the temple proper, and has been translated accordingly.
42 See the note on synagogue in .
43 A second part of Paul’s defense is that he did nothing while he was in Jerusalem to cause unrest, neither arguing nor stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city.

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and they did not find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or in the city.

My accusers did not find me arguing with anyone at the temple, or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city.

They didn’t find me arguing with anyone or causing a disturbance among the crowd, either in the temple or in the synagogues or anywhere in the city.

My accusers never found me arguing with anyone in the Temple, nor stirring up a riot in any synagogue or on the streets of the city.

And neither did they find me arguing with anyone or making a crowd develop in the temple courts nor in the synagogues nor throughout the city.

And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:

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