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Acts 26:31
and when they had gone out, they began talking to one another, saying,“ This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”
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Acts 18:15
but if there are questions about teaching and persons and your own law, see to it yourselves; I am unwilling to be a judge of these matters.”
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Acts 25:25
But I found that he had committed nothing deserving death; and since he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.
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Acts 28:18
And when they had examined me, they were willing to release me because there were no grounds for putting me to death.
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Acts 23:6-9
But Paul, perceiving that one group were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, began crying out in the Council,“ Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees; I am on trial for the hope and resurrection of the dead!”When he said this, a dissension occurred between the Pharisees and Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.And a great uproar occurred; and some of the scribes of the Pharisaic party stood up and started arguing heatedly, saying,“ We find nothing wrong with this man; suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”
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Acts 25:19-20
but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.And being at a loss how to investigate such matters, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial there on these matters.
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Acts 25:7-8
After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many, and serious, charges against him which they could not prove,while Paul said in his own defense,“ I have not done anything wrong either against the Law of the Jews, or against the temple, or against Caesar.”
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Acts 24:5-6
For we have found this man a public menace and one who stirs up dissensions among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.And he even tried to desecrate the temple, so indeed we arrested him.
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Acts 25:11
If, therefore, I am in the wrong and have committed something deserving death, I am not trying to avoid execution; but if there is nothing to the accusations which these men are bringing against me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
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Acts 24:10-21
And when the governor had nodded for him to speak, Paul responded:“ Knowing that for many years you have been a judge to this nation, I cheerfully make my defense,since you can take note of the fact that no more than twelve days ago I went up to Jerusalem to worship.And neither in the temple did they find me carrying on a discussion with anyone or causing a riot, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city itself.Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.But I confess this to you, that in accordance with the Way, which they call a sect, I do serve the God of our fathers, believing everything that is in accordance with the Law and is written in the Prophets;having a hope in God, which these men cherish themselves, that there shall certainly be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.In view of this I also do my best to maintain a blameless conscience both before God and before other people, always.Now after several years I came to bring charitable gifts to my nation and to present offerings,in which they found me occupied in the temple, having been purified, without any crowd or uproar. But there were some Jews from Asia—who ought to have been present before you and to have been bringing charges, if they should have anything against me.Or else have these men themselves declare what violation they discovered when I stood before the Council,other than in regard to this one declaration which I shouted while standing among them,‘ For the resurrection of the dead I am on trial before you today!’ ”