Acts 20:35

20:35 By all these things, ¹  I have shown you that by working in this way we must help ²  the weak, ³  and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’” ⁴ 

Acts 24:14

24:14 But I confess this to you, that I worship ⁵  the God of our ancestors ⁶  according to the Way (which they call a sect), believing everything that is according to the law ⁷  and that is written in the prophets.

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¹ sn The expression By all these things means “In everything I did.”

² tn Or “must assist.”

³ tn Or “the sick.” See Eph 4:28.

⁴ sn The saying is similar to Matt 10:8. Service and generosity should be abundant. Interestingly, these exact words are not found in the gospels. Paul must have known of this saying from some other source.

⁵ tn Or “serve.”

⁶ tn Or “forefathers”; Grk “fathers.”

⁷ sn That is, the law of Moses. Paul was claiming that he legitimately worshiped the God of Israel. He was arguing that this amounted to a religious dispute rather than a political one, so that the Roman authorities need not concern themselves with it.