<p>24:18 <em>Whilst doing this, they found me purified in the temple, with no crowd, nor with uproar; but there were certain Jews from Asia</em>- Paul emphasizes his legal obedience; he did not profane the temple, he was ritually clean &quot;purified&quot; in the temple. This sounds very much like a 'boast in the law', and confirms my earlier suggestion that his whole agreement to go through the purification rituals was a quite wrong tokenistic obedience to laws he had argued were obsolete. Once a political rather than spiritual approach is taken to issues, then a whole sequence of decision making is sparked off which makes it ever harder to pull out of the 'political' thinking and revert to spiritual perspectives.</p>