Acts 28:17
And it came to pass, after three days, that he called together the chief men of the Jews; and when they had come, he said to them: Brethren, though I have done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
18They, after examination, would have released me, for they found no cause of death in me.
Cross References
Acts 6:14For we have heard him say, that this Jesus the Nazarene will destroy this place, and will change the customs which Moses delivered to us.
Acts 22:5as the chief priest and the whole body of elders will testify for me. From them I also received letters to the brethren, and went to Damascus, to bring those, also, who were there, bound to Jerusalem, that they might be punished.
Acts 23:33When they came to Cæsarea, and delivered the letter to the governor, they presented Paul also before him.
Acts 25:2And the chief priest and first men of the Jews informed him against Paul,
Acts 25:10And Paul answered: I am standing at the judgment-seat of Cæsar, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you very well know.
Matthew Henry on Acts 28:12-17
Paul at Rome. 11 And after three months we departed in a ship of Alexandria, which had wintered in the isle, whose sign was Castor and Pollux. 12 And landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days. 13 And from thence we fetched a compass, and came to Rhegium: and after one day the south wind blew, and we came the next day to Puteoli: 14 Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome. 15 And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to meet us as… Read the whole commentary →