Acts 24:19
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New International Version (©2011)
But there are some Jews from the province of Asia, who ought to be here before you and bring charges if they have anything against me.

New Living Translation (©2007)
But some Jews from the province of Asia were there--and they ought to be here to bring charges if they have anything against me!

English Standard Version (©2001)
they ought to be here before you and to make an accusation, should they have anything against me.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
who ought to have been present before you and to make accusation, if they should have anything against me.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
It is they who ought to be here before you to bring charges, if they have anything against me.

International Standard Version (©2012)
But some Jews from Asia were there, and they should be here before you to accuse me if they have anything against me.

NET Bible (©2006)
But there are some Jews from the province of Asia who should be here before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
“But the Jews who came up from Asia, who stirred up the people, ought to be standing with me before you to bring whatever charge they have,”

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
But some Jews from the province of Asia were there. They should be here in front of you to accuse me if they have anything against me.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Who ought to have been here before you, and object, if they had anything against me.

American King James Version
Who ought to have been here before you, and object, if they had ought against me.

American Standard Version
who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But certain Jews of Asia, who ought to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had any thing against me:

Darby Bible Translation
who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have anything against me;

English Revised Version
who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me.

Webster's Bible Translation
Who ought to have been here before thee, and object if they had aught against me.

Weymouth New Testament
They ought to have been here before you, and to have been my prosecutors, if they have any charge to bring against me.

World English Bible
They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.

Young's Literal Translation
whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

24:10-21 Paul gives a just account of himself, which clears him from crime, and likewise shows the true reason of the violence against him. Let us never be driven from any good way by its having an ill name. It is very comfortable, in worshipping God, to look to him as the God of our fathers, and to set up no other rule of faith or practice but the Scriptures. This shows there will be a resurrection to a final judgment. Prophets and their doctrines were to be tried by their fruits. Paul's aim was to have a conscience void of offence. His care and endeavour was to abstain from many things, and to abound in the exercises of religion at all times; both towards God. and towards man. If blamed for being more earnest in the things of God than our neighbours, what is our reply? Do we shrink from the accusation? How many in the world would rather be accused of any weakness, nay, even of wickedness, than of an earnest, fervent feeling of love to the Lord Jesus Christ, and of devotedness to his service! Can such think that He will confess them when he comes in his glory, and before the angels of God? If there is any sight pleasing to the God of our salvation, and a sight at which the angels rejoice, it is, to behold a devoted follower of the Lord, here upon earth, acknowledging that he is guilty, if it be a crime, of loving the Lord who died for him, with all his heart, and soul, and mind, and strength. And that he will not in silence see God's word despised, or hear his name profaned; he will rather risk the ridicule and the hatred of the world, than one frown from that gracious Being whose love is better than life.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 19. - To make accusation for object, A.V. The sense is exactly the same.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Who ought to have been here before thee,.... For they were the only persons who saw him in the temple, and what he was doing; and who by an hideous outcry raised a mob upon him, who took things upon hearsay from them:

and object, if they had ought against me; either with respect to sedition, or blasphemy, error or heresy, if they were capable of proving anything.

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Paul Defends His Testimony
…18Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. 19Who ought to have been here before you, and object, if they had ought against me. 20Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,

Acts 23:30 When I was informed of a plot to be carried out against the man, I sent him to you at once. I also ordered his accusers to present to you their case against him.
Acts 23:35 he said, "I will hear your case when your accusers get here." Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod's palace.