Acts 23:29

I learned that he was being accused about questions concerning their own law, but that there was no accusation against him that deserved death or imprisonment.

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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 why they accused him, so I took him down to their council.

30Then it was made known to me that there was a plot against the man, so I immediately sent him to you, and instructed his accusers also to bring their charges against him in your presence. Farewell.”

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Cross References

Acts 18:15But since these are questions about words and names and your own law, settle it yourselves. I do not wish to be a judge of these matters.”

Acts 24:5For we have found this man to be a pest and one who causes all the Jews throughout the world to rebel. He is a leader of the Nazarene sect.

Acts 25:7When he arrived, the Jews from Jerusalem stood nearby, and they brought many serious charges which they could not prove.

Acts 25:19Instead, they had certain disputes with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claims to be alive.

Acts 26:31when they left the hall, they talked to one another and said, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

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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