Acts 24:18

"In which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar" This answers the charge that Paul had defiled the temple. At the very time when the Jews from Asia found him, he was not in the midst of defiling the temple, rather he was presenting offers and in. purified condition. "Far from being there to profane the temple, he had gone through all the process of purification required for such vows as he had attached himself to" (Reese p. 847). "But there were some Jews from Asia" And not Jews from Jerusalem. Notice that Tertullus had left the impression that the Jews in Jerusalem had discovered Paul in the temple (Acts 24:6).