{Disputing} (dialegomenon). Simply conversing,
discussing, arguing, and then disputing, common verb in old Greek
and in N.T. (especially in Acts). {Stirring up a crowd}
(epistasin poiounta ochlou). Epistasis is a late word from
ephist(886d)i, to make an onset or rush. Only twice in the N.T.,
 2Co 11:28  (the pressure or care of the churches) and here
(making a rush of a crowd). The papyri give examples also for
"onset." So Paul denies the two charges that were serious and the
only one that concerned Roman law (insurrection).