Acts 23:29

I found out the charges against him had to do with issues regarding their law, but he was not guilty of anything that merited death or imprisonment.

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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

28I wanted to know the reason for their accusations, so I took him before their council.

30When I discovered a plot against this man I sent him to you right away, ordering his accusers to make their complaints before you.”

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Cross References

Acts 18:15But since you're only arguing over words and names and your own law, then you deal with it yourselves. I won't rule on such matters.”

Acts 24:5We discovered that this man is a real pest, stirring up rebellions among Jews all over the world, a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.

Acts 25:7When he came in the Jews that had come from Jerusalem surrounded him and brought many serious charges against him that they couldn't prove.

Acts 25:19Instead they brought up controversies over religious questions, and over a man called Jesus who was dead but whom Paul insisted was alive.

Acts 26:31They conferred together after they had left. “This man hasn't done anything that deserves death or imprisonment,” they concluded.

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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