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Acts 26:31
After they left the room, they began saying to one another,“ This man is not doing anything that deserves death or imprisonment.”
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Acts 18:15
But since it involves questions about words and names and your own law— settle the matter yourselves. I will not be a judge of such things.”
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Acts 25:25
I found he had done nothing deserving of death, but because he made his appeal to the Emperor I decided to send him to Rome.
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Acts 28:18
They examined me and wanted to release me, because I was not guilty of any crime deserving death.
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Acts 23:6-9
Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin,“ My brothers, I am a Pharisee, descended from Pharisees. I stand on trial because of the hope of the resurrection of the dead.”When he said this, a dispute broke out between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.( The Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees believe all these things.)There was a great uproar, and some of the teachers of the law who were Pharisees stood up and argued vigorously.“ We find nothing wrong with this man,” they said.“ What if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
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Acts 25:19-20
Instead, they had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive.I was at a loss how to investigate such matters; so I asked if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial there on these charges.
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Acts 25:7-8
When Paul came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him. They brought many serious charges against him, but they could not prove them.Then Paul made his defense:“ I have done nothing wrong against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”
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Acts 24:5-6
“ We have found this man to be a troublemaker, stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the Nazarene sectand even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.
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Acts 25:11
If, however, I am guilty of doing anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if the charges brought against me by these Jews are not true, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
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Acts 24:10-21
When the governor motioned for him to speak, Paul replied:“ I know that for a number of years you have been a judge over this nation; so I gladly make my defense.You can easily verify that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.My accusers did not find me arguing with anyone at the temple, or stirring up a crowd in the synagogues or anywhere else in the city.And they cannot prove to you the charges they are now making against me.However, I admit that I worship the God of our ancestors as a follower of the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is in accordance with the Law and that is written in the Prophets,and I have the same hope in God as these men themselves have, that there will be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.So I strive always to keep my conscience clear before God and man.“ After an absence of several years, I came to Jerusalem to bring my people gifts for the poor and to present offerings.I was ceremonially clean when they found me in the temple courts doing this. There was no crowd with me, nor was I involved in any disturbance.But there are some Jews from the province of Asia, who ought to be here before you and bring charges if they have anything against me.Or these who are here should state what crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin—unless it was this one thing I shouted as I stood in their presence:‘ It is concerning the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you today.’”