Contradictions and Paradoxes in Acts 24:18

Check out Contradictions Catalog of Acts 24:18 for the comprehensive list of verses that contradicts Acts 24:18. Some key contradictions and paradoxes are described below.

According to Luke, some Jewish people from Asia found Paul in the temple after he had purified himself, and he was not causing any trouble or gathering a crowd.

Acts 24:18: Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.

Contradiction with Acts 21:28

This verse accuses Paul of bringing Greeks into the temple and defiling it, whereas Acts 24:18 claims he was ceremonially clean and not causing a disturbance.

Acts 21:28: Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teacheth all [men] every where against the people, and the law, and this place: and further brought Greeks also into the temple, and hath polluted this holy place.

Contradiction with Acts 24:5-6

These verses portray Paul as a troublemaker and leader of a sect causing chaos, contradicting Acts 24:18, where he is depicted as conducting himself quietly and in compliance with religious norms.

Acts 24:5-6: For we have found this man [a] pestilent [fellow], and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
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