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What the Fathers say

Acts 26:4

Eastern Fathers

John Chrysostom

"My manner of life from my youth, which was at the first among mine own nation at Jerusalem, know all the Jews: which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after the most straitest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee." Then how should I have become a seditious person, who when young was thus testified of by all? …

Homily on Acts 52 ↗

Theophylact of Ohrid

"All the Jews know; they have known about me for a long time." This means: the Jews know the truth, but do not want to testify to it, and willfully lie and sin against him.

Commentary on Acts ↗