Acts 23:29

I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but there was no accusation worthy of death or bonds.

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In The King James Version

Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

In Context

28And wanting to know the reason they were accusing him, I took him down to their council.

30When I was told that the Jews were about to execute a plot against the man, I sent him to you at once, also directing his accusers to state the charges against him before you. Farewell.”

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Cross References

Acts 18:15but since it is an issue over a word and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; because I refuse to be a judge of such matters.”

Acts 24:5We have found this man to be a plague, a creator of discord among all the Jews throughout the world, a ringleader of the Natsorean sect,

Acts 25:7When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem made a circle, bringing against Paul many serious charges that they could not prove,

Acts 25:19but had certain issues against him about their religion, and about a certain dead Jesus whom Paul affirmed to be living.

Acts 26:31and when they had withdrawn they started talking among themselves, saying, “This man is doing nothing deserving of death or chains.”

Matthew Henry on Acts 23:13-35

A Conspiracy against Paul; Paul Sent to Felix. 12 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul. 13 And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy. 14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul. 15 Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring… Read the whole commentary →

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