Acts 24:19
They ought to have been here before you, and to make accusation, if they had anything against me.
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- Acts 23:30 : 30 When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."
- Acts 25:16 : 16 To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
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- Acts 24:20-212 verses87%
20Or else let these men themselves say what injustice they found in me when I stood before the council,
21unless it is for this one thing that I cried standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged before you today!'"
- Acts 24:17-182 verses79%
17Now after some years, I came to bring gifts for the needy to my nation, and offerings;
18amid which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a mob, nor with turmoil.
- Acts 25:15-184 verses77%
15about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.
16To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.
17When therefore they had come together here, I didn't delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought.
18Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such things as I supposed;
- Acts 24:6-138 verses77%
6He even tried to profane the temple, and we arrested him.
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8By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him."
9The Jews also joined in the attack, affirming that these things were so.
10When the governor had beckoned to him to speak, Paul answered, "Because I know that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, I cheerfully make my defense,
11seeing that you can recognize that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.
12In the temple they didn't find me disputing with anyone or stirring up a crowd, either in the synagogues, or in the city.
13Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.
- Acts 28:17-193 verses76%
17It happened that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
18who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
19But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
- Acts 23:28-303 verses76%
28Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
29I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
30When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell."
- Acts 25:10-112 verses75%
10But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.
11For if I have done wrong, and have committed anything worthy of death, I don't refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!"
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5"Let them therefore," said he, "that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him."
- Acts 25:26-272 verses74%
26Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination, I may have something to write.
27For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him."
- Acts 25:7-82 verses74%
7When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,
8while he said in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I sinned at all."
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1"Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I now make to you."
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24Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
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29For they had seen Trophimus, the Ephesian, with him in the city, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple.
- Acts 26:2-54 verses73%
2"I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,
3especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.
4"Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;
5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.
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14and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
- Acts 19:37-382 verses72%
37For you have brought these men here, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of your goddess.
38If therefore Demetrius and the craftsmen who are with him have a matter against anyone, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls. Let them press charges against one another.
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2When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, "Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,
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40For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day's riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn't be able to give an account of this commotion."
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30But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.
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20Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.
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32Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."
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30The king rose up with the governor, and Bernice, and those who sat with them.
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35"I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive." He commanded that he be kept in Herod's palace.
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19I said, 'Lord, they themselves know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue those who believed in you.
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1Paul, looking steadfastly at the council, said, "Brothers, I have lived before God in all good conscience until this day."
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20He said, "The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as though intending to inquire somewhat more accurately concerning him.
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21They said to him, "We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.