6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.
6 and even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.By
6 He even tried to profane the temple, but we seized him.
6 He's a real bad apple, I must say. We caught him trying to defile our holy Temple and arrested him.
6 He even tried to profane the temple, and we seized him, and wanted to judge him according to our law.
6 Furthermore, he was trying to desecrate the Temple when we arrested him.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Acts 24:6
Commentary on Acts 24:1-9
(Read Acts 24:1-9)
See here the unhappiness of great men, and a great unhappiness it is, to have their services praised beyond measure, and never to be faithfully told of their faults; hereby they are hardened and encouraged in evil, like Felix. God's prophets were charged with being troublers of the land, and our Lord Jesus Christ, that he perverted the nation; the very same charges were brought against Paul. The selfish and evil passions of men urge them forward, and the graces and power of speech, too often have been used to mislead and prejudice men against the truth. How different will the characters of Paul and Felix appear at the day of judgement, from what they are represented in the speech of Tertullus! Let not Christians value the applause, or be troubled at the revilings of ungodly men, who represent the vilest of the human race almost as gods, and the excellent of the earth as pestilences and movers of sedition.