Acts 28:21

And they said to Rav Sha'ul, We neither received iggrot about you from Yehudah nor have any of the Achim arrived and reported or spoke any lashon hora about you.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

20On account of this reason, therefore, I summoned you, to see you and to speak with you, since it is for the sake of the tikvat Yisroel that I am wearing these prison sharsherot (chains).

22But we desire to hear from you what you think, for lichora (apparently) with regard to this kat of Judaism, we have da'as that it is spoken keneged (against) everywhere.

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Cross References

Isaiah 41:11Surely, all they that were raging against thee 1 shall be ashamed and disgraced; 1 they shall be as nothing; 1 and the anshei rivecha (they that strive with thee) shall perish. 1

Isaiah 54:17No keli (weapon, instrument) that is formed 1 against thee shall prosper; 1 and every leshon (tongue) that shall rise against thee in mishpat (judgment, accusation) 1 tarshi'i (thou shalt condemn, prove false, refute, prove wrong). 1 This is the nachalat avdei Hashem (the heritage of the servants of Hashem ), 1 and their tzedakah (righteousness, vindication) is from Me, saith Hashem.

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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