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ULTNow after many years I came to my nation bringing alms and offerings,
USTLet me tell you why I was in Jerusalem. After I had been in other places for several years, I returned there to bring some money to help my fellow Jews who were poor. While I was there, I also offered sacrifices in the temple courtyard.
BSB § After several years, then, I returned to Jerusalem to bring alms to my people and to present offerings.
BLBNow after many years, I arrived to bring alms to my nation, and offerings,
AICNT“Now after several years, I came to bring alms to my nation and offerings,
OEBAfter some years’ absence I had come to bring charitable gifts to my nation, and to make offerings;
WEBBENow after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
NETAfter several years I came to bring to my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings,
LSVAnd after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,
FBVHaving been away for a few years I returned to bring some money to help the poor and to give offerings to God.
TCNTAfter being away for many years, I came to bring charitable gifts to my nation along with offerings.
T4TAfter I had been in other places for several years, I returned to Jerusalem. I went there to deliver some money to my fellow Jews who are poor, and to offer sacrifices to God.
LEBSo after many years, I came to practice charitable giving and offerings to my people,[fn]
Wymth"Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices.
ASVNow after some years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:
DRANow after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings, and vows.
YLT'And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings,
DrbyAnd after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.
RVNow after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings:
WbstrNow after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
KJB-1769Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
KJB-1611Now after many yeeres, I came to bring almes to my nation, & offrings: (Now after many years, I came to bring almes to my nation, and offerings:)
BshpsNowe after many yeres, I came and brought almes to my nation, and offerynges: (Now after many years, I came and brought almes to my nation, and offerings:)
GnvaNow after many yeres, I came and brought almes to my nation and offerings. (Now after many years, I came and brought almes to my nation and offerings. )
CvdlBut after many yeares I came and broughte allmesse vnto my people, and offeringes: (But after many years I came and brought allmesse unto my people, and offerings:)
TNTBut after many yeres I came and brought almes to my people and offeringes in the which they founde me purified in the temple nether with multitude nor yet with vnquyetnes. (But after many years I came and brought almes to my people and offerings in the which they found me purified in the temple neither with multitude nor yet with unquyetnes. )
WyclBut after many yeeris, Y cam to do almes dedis to my folc, and offryngis, and auowis; (But after many yearis, I came to do almes dedis to my folc, and offryngis, and auowis;)
LuthAber nach vielen Jahren bin ich kommen und habe ein Almosen gebracht meinem Volk und Opfer. (But after vielen yearsn am I coming and have a Almosen brought my people and Opfer.)
ClVgPost annos autem plures eleemosynas facturus in gentem meam, veni, et oblationes, et vota, (Post years however plures eleemosynas facturus in gentem mine, veni, and oblationes, and vota, )
UGNTδι’ ἐτῶν δὲ πλειόνων, ἐλεημοσύνας ποιήσων εἰς τὸ ἔθνος μου, παρεγενόμην καὶ προσφοράς (di’ etōn de pleionōn, eleaʸmosunas poiaʸsōn eis to ethnos mou, paregenomaʸn kai prosforas)
SBL-GNTδιʼ ἐτῶν δὲ πλειόνων ⸂ἐλεημοσύνας ποιήσων εἰς τὸ ἔθνος μου παρεγενόμην⸃ καὶ προσφοράς, (diʼ etōn de pleionōn ⸂eleaʸmosunas poiaʸsōn eis to ethnos mou paregenomaʸn⸃ kai prosforas,)
TC-GNTΔι᾽ ἐτῶν δὲ πλειόνων [fn]παρεγενόμην ἐλεημοσύνας ποιήσων εἰς τὸ ἔθνος μου καὶ προσφοράς· (Di etōn de pleionōn paregenomaʸn eleaʸmosunas poiaʸsōn eis to ethnos mou kai prosforas; )
24:17παρεγενομην ελεημοσυνας ποιησων εις το εθνος μου ¦ ελεημοσυνας ποιησων εις το εθνος μου παρεγενομην CT
Paul is using the word translated Now to introduce a new phase of his defense. Use a word, phrase, or other method in your language that would be natural for this purpose.
Paul is actually referring to the place where the people of the Jewish nation live. If it would be helpful in your language, you could use an equivalent expression or express the meaning plainly. Alternate translation: [the place where my Jewish people live]
By alms Paul means gifts for the poor that the Gentile churches had collected and that he was delivering. By offerings he means the sacrifices that he and four other men offered at the end of a period of vows. You can include this information if that would be helpful to your readers. Alternate translation: [to bring gifts for the poor and to offer sacrifices at the end of a vow period]
As the book of Acts attests, Paul was no stranger to imprisonment, and he catalogued his incarcerations among his many credentials of suffering that affirmed his legitimacy as an apostle to the Corinthians (2 Corinthians 6:4-5). The first mention of Paul being imprisoned is when he and Silas were arrested in Philippi after exorcising a spirit of divination from a slave girl (Acts 16). Paul’s actions angered the girl’s owners, since the men were no longer able to make money off of the girl’s fortune telling abilities. Later in his letter to the Corinthians, Paul notes that he had already suffered multiple imprisonments (2 Corinthians 11:23), making it clear that not all of Paul’s imprisonments and other sufferings were recorded in Scripture. The next imprisonment explicitly mentioned in Scripture is when Paul was arrested in the Temple in Jerusalem at the end of his third missionary journey (Acts 21:27-34). Soon after this Paul was sent to Caesarea on the Mediterranean coast, where he remained in prison for two years (Acts 23-26; see “Paul Is Transferred to Caesarea” map). This may be where Paul penned the letters commonly known as the Prison Epistles (Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and Philemon). At the end of this time Paul appealed his case to Caesar and was sent to Rome, where he spent another two years under house arrest awaiting his trial before Caesar (Acts 28:16-31). If Paul did not write his Prison Epistles while he was at Caesarea, then it is likely that he wrote them from Rome during this time. The next time we hear of Paul being imprisoned is likely several years later in his second letter to Timothy (2 Timothy 1:8-17; 2:9; 4:9-21). Though it is not certain, the tone of Paul’s writing during this time of imprisonment, which seems markedly more somber than the optimistic outlook he seems to have about his incarceration during the writing of the Prison Epistles (e.g., Philippians 1:21-26; Philemon 1:22), suggests that this incarceration was not the same as his house arrest. If so, then it is possible that between his first and second incarcerations in Rome Paul fulfilled his intention to travel to Spain to continue spreading the gospel (Romans 15:22-28). Just prior to his second incarceration in Rome, Paul had informed Titus that he planned to spend the winter in Nicopolis northwest of Achaia and asked him to meet him there (Titus 3:12). Perhaps it was around this time or soon after that he was arrested once again and brought to Rome. Paul’s ultimate fate is not noted in Scripture, but tradition (Clement, Dionysius, Eusebius, and Tertullian) attests that this final imprisonment of Paul took place at what is now called Mamertine Prison. During Paul’s time this was the only prison in Rome and was called simply “the Prison,” and it was not typically used for long term incarceration but rather for holding those awaiting imminent execution. There, during the reign of Nero, Paul met his earthly death by the sword and was received into eternal life by his loving Savior, whom he had served so long.
