Acts 28:21

“We have not received any letters from Judea about you, and none of our people have come here with reports against you or to speak badly of you,” they told him.

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In The King James Version

And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judaea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.

In Context

20That's why I asked to see you, and talk to you, because it is on account of the hope of Israel that I am chained up like this.”

22“But we do want to hear from you what you believe—especially regarding this sect, which we know is condemned everywhere.”

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Cross References

Isaiah 41:11See—everyone who is angry with you will be ashamed and disgraced. Those who fight against you will end up as nothing and die.

Isaiah 54:17None of the weapons forged against you will succeed, and you will condemn anyone who accuses you. This is how the servants of the Lord are blessed, and I am the one who vindicates them, declares the Lord.

Matthew Henry on Acts 28:18-23

Paul at Rome. 17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans. 18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me. 19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar; not that I… Read the whole commentary →

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