Acts 23:29
I discovered that he was being accused about questions concerning their own law, but had no accusation against him that deserved death or imprisonment.
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In Context
28Wishing to know the reason why they were accusing him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin.
Cross References
Acts 18:15But since it is a question about words, names, and your own law, see to it yourselves, for I do not want to be a judge of such things.”
Acts 24:5For we have found this man to be a pestilent fellow, an instigator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
Acts 25:7When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges against him that they could not prove.
Acts 25:19Instead they had certain points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, but whom Paul claimed was alive.
Acts 26:31After leaving the room, they began saying to one another, “This man is doing nothing that deserves death or imprisonment.”
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 →