Acts 25 Cross References - MKJV

¹ Then entering the province, after three days Festus went from Caesarea to Jerusalem. ² And the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him ³ asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way. ⁴ Then indeed Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea; he himself would depart shortly. ⁵ Then he said, those having power among you may go down with me. If there is a thing amiss in this man, let them accuse him. ⁶ And staying among them more than ten days, going down to Caesarea, on the next day sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought. ⁷ And he having come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around and brought many charges against Paul, which they could not prove. ⁸ Defending himself, Paul said, Neither against the Law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything. ⁹ But Festus, wanting to please the Jews, answered Paul and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me about these things? ¹⁰ But Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know. ¹¹ For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar. ¹² Then conferring with the sanhedrin, Festus answered, You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go. ¹³ And after some days king Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to greet Festus. ¹⁴ And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause to the king, saying, A certain man has been left in bonds by Felix, ¹⁵ about whom, when I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring judgment against him. ¹⁶ To them I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before he being accused may have the accusers face to face, and have had freedom to answer for himself concerning the accusation. ¹⁷ Therefore, when they had come here, without any delay I sat on the judgment seat the next day and commanded the man to be brought, ¹⁸ about whom, standing up, the accusers brought against him no charge of which I suspected, ¹⁹ but they had certain questions about their own demon-worship, and about a certain Jesus dying, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. ²⁰ And because I was perplexed about this question, I asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and be judged there about these matters. ²¹ But Paul having appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be held until I might send him to Caesar. ²² And Agrippa said to Festus, I also would like to hear the man myself. And he said, Tomorrow you shall hear him. ²³ And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp and had entered into the auditorium with both the chiliarchs and principal men of the city, also Festus commanding, Paul was brought out. ²⁴ And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those men present with us, you see this one about whom all the multitude of the Jews pleaded with me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. ²⁵ But I had perceived nothing he had committed worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him, ²⁶ about whom I have no certain thing to write of him to my lord. Therefore I brought him before you, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, so that, after examination is made, I might have something to write. ²⁷ For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not to signify the charges against him.

¹⁵ For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews, and here also have I done nothing that they should put me into the dungeon.

⁴ and if it is told you, and you have heard and inquired carefully, and, behold, it is true and the thing is certain, such abomination is done in Israel;

¹⁷ then both the men who are disagreeing shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges which shall be in those days. ¹⁸ And the judges shall make careful inquiry. And behold, if the witness is a false witness and has testified falsely against his brother,

²² Jehovah, the God of gods, Jehovah, the God of gods shall know, and Israel shall know if it is in rebellion or in transgression against Jehovah (you shall not save us alive today),

³ Behold, here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received a bribe, to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you. ⁴ And they said, You have not defrauded us nor oppressed us, neither have you taken from any man's hand. ⁵ And he said to them, Jehovah is witness against you, and His anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.

¹⁰ And it happened as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came. And Saul went out to meet him and to kneel to him.

¹⁹ And the men of Ziph came up to Saul, to Gibeah, saying, Does not David hide himself with us in strongholds in the forest, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of the wilderness? ²⁰ And now, O king, come down according to all the desire of your soul. Come down, and it is for us to shut him up into the king's hand. ²¹ And Saul said, Blessed are you from Jehovah, for you have pity on me.

¹¹ And, my father, behold! Yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand. For in that I cut off the skirt of your robe and did not kill you, know and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in my hand, and I have not sinned against you. Yet you hunt my soul to take it. ¹² May Jehovah judge between me and you, and may Jehovah avenge me of you. But my hand shall not be on you.

¹⁴ And one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold! David sent messengers out of the wilderness to greet our master, and he screamed at them.

¹ And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul. Nothing is better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines. And Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any border of Israel, and so I shall escape out of his hand.

¹⁰ Then Toi sent Joram his son to King David, to greet him and bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and had struck him. For Hadadezer had wars against Toi. And in his hand were silver articles, and golden articles, and bronze articles.

¹³ And Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are you? And they answered, The brothers of Ahaziah. And we are going down to greet the king's sons and the queen's sons.

¹⁵ so that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers, and you shall find in the book of the records, and shall know that this city is a rebellious city, hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have rebelled in it in the past, for which cause that city was destroyed.

⁴ And he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of his excellent majesty many days, a hundred and eighty days.

⁸ And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people, in all the provinces of your kingdom. And their laws are different from all people, neither do they keep the king's laws. And it is not for the king's gain to allow them to live. ⁹ If it pleases the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed. And I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those who have charge of the business, to bring it into the king's treasuries.

²¹ if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless when I watched over my help in the gate;

³¹ if the men of my camp did not say, Who can find one who has not been satisfied with his meat?

³⁸ If my lands cry against me, or its furrows weep together; ³⁹ if I have eaten its strength without silver, or have caused its owner to expire, ⁴⁰ let thorns come forth instead of wheat, and weeds instead of barley. The words of Job are ended.

³ O Jehovah my God, if I have done this; if there is iniquity in my hands; ⁴ if I have rewarded evil to my friend, or if I have delivered one oppressing me without cause; ⁵ let the enemy persecute my soul and take it; yea, let him trample down my life on the earth and lay my honor in the dust. Selah.

¹² Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies; for false witnesses have risen up against me, and he that breathes out cruelty.

¹¹ Cruel witnesses rose up; they asked of me that which I never knew.

³² The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to kill him. ³³ Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, nor allow him to be found guilty when he is judged.

² Hide me from the council of those who injure, from the rebelling of the workers of iniquity, ³ who sharpen their tongue like a sword, they tread their arrows, even a bitter word, ⁴ so that they may shoot at the blameless one from a lurking place; suddenly they shoot at him, and fear not. ⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil plan; they talk of laying snares secretly; they say, Who shall see them? ⁶ They search out injustice, saying, We have finished hiding a hidden plot. Yea, the inward part of man and the heart are deep.

¹⁰ Surely the wrath of man shall praise You; the wrath that is left, You shall bind up.

¹ To the Chief Musician, A Psalm of David. Deliver me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; keep me from the violent man, ² who devised evil things in the heart; they are always gathered for war. ³ They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah. ⁴ O Jehovah, keep me from the hands of the wicked; keep me from the violent man who purposed to trip up my steps. ⁵ The proud have hidden cords and a trap for me; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set snares for me. Selah.

¹⁶ For they do not sleep, except when they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away unless they cause some to fall.

¹³ If one answers a matter before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.

¹⁷ The first in his cause seems just, but his neighbor comes and searches him.

² Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

¹⁴ So hell has enlarged itself, and opened its mouth without measure; and their glory, and their multitude, and their pride, and he who rejoices in her, shall go down into it.

¹¹ Your pride is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your harps. The maggot is spread under you, and the worms cover you.

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning, and from the past things which were not done, saying, My purpose shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure; ¹¹ calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country. Yes, I have spoken, I will also cause it to come; I have formed; yes, I will do it.

¹⁵ so He sprinkles from many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at Him; for they will see that which was not told to them; yea, what they had not heard, nor understood.

¹⁸ Then they said, Come and let us plot schemes against Jeremiah. For the Law shall not perish from the priest, nor wisdom from the wise, nor the Word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with the tongue, and let us not pay attention to any of his words.

¹⁸ And Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What have I offended against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you have put me in prison?

⁴ And the rulers said to the king, Please let this man be put to death. For in this way he weakens the hands of the men of war who remain in this city, and the hands of all the people, in speaking such words to them. For this man does not seek the good of this people, but the hurt.

³⁷ Who is this who speaks, and it occurs, when the Lord does not command it?

²⁴ And I will bring the most evil of the nations, and they shall possess their houses. I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and their holy places shall be defiled.

¹⁸ And at Tahpanhes also the day shall be held back, when I shatter the yokes of Egypt there. And the pride of her strength shall cease in her; as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into exile.

¹² By the swords of the mighty, I will cause your host to fall, the fearful of the nations, all of them. And they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all its host shall be destroyed.

²⁸ For I have made the land a ruin, and the pride of her strength has ceased. And the mountains of Israel shall be a waste, so that none shall pass through.

³⁰ The king spoke and said, Is this not great Babylon that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?

³⁵ And all the people of the earth are counted as nothing; and He does according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the people of the earth. And none can strike His hand, or say to Him, What are You doing?

²² My God has sent His Angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, and they have not hurt me, because before Him purity was found in me. And also before you, O king, I have done no harm.

¹¹ Blessed are you when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for My sake. ¹² Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for your reward in Heaven is great. For so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

¹⁸ And you shall be brought before governors and kings for My sake, for a testimony against them and the nations.

⁶⁰ But they found none; yea, though many false witnesses came, they found none. But at last two false witnesses came up ⁶¹ and said, This one said, I am able to destroy the temple of God and to build it in three days. ⁶² And standing up, the high priest said to Him, Do you answer nothing? What is it that these witness against you?

¹⁸ For he knew they had delivered Him because of envy. ¹⁹ But as he was sitting down on the judgment seat, his wife sent to him, saying, Have nothing to do with that just man, for today because of Him I have suffered many things in a dream.

²³ And the governor said, Why? What evil has He done? But they cried out the more, saying, let Him be crucified! ²⁴ But when Pilate saw that it gained nothing, but rather that a tumult was made, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person. You see to it.

²³ And he swore to her, Whatever you shall ask from me, I will give it to you, to the half of my kingdom. ²⁴ And she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist. ²⁵ And immediately going in with haste to the king, she asked, saying, I desire that you give me at once the head of John the Baptist on a platter.

³ And the chief priests accused Him of many things, but He answered nothing. ⁴ And Pilate asked Him again, saying, Do you answer nothing? Behold how many things they witness against you!

¹⁵ And deciding to do the easiest to the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Him, delivered up Jesus to be crucified.

¹⁸ And they began to salute Him, Hail, King of the Jews!

¹ And it happened in those days that a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed.

³ And a widow was in that city. And she came to Him, saying, Avenge me of my adversary. ⁴ And he would not do so for a time. But afterward he said within himself, Though I do not fear God nor regard man, ⁵ yet because this widow troubles me, I will avenge her, that she not wear me down in the end.

¹² But before all these, they shall lay their hands on you and persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and rulers for My name's sake.

² And they began to accuse Him, saying, We have found this one perverting the nation and forbidding them to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be a king, Christ.

⁴ And Pilate said to the chief priests and to the people, I find no fault in this man.

⁸ And seeing Jesus, Herod greatly rejoiced, for he had desired to see Him for a long time, because he had heard many things about Him. And he hoped to see some miracle done by Him. ⁹ And he questioned Him in many words, but He answered him nothing. ¹⁰ And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused Him.

¹⁰ And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused Him. ¹¹ And humiliating Him with his guardsmen, and mocking Him by putting luxurious clothing around Him, Herod sent Him again to Pilate. ¹² And that same day Pilate and Herod became friends with one another, for before they were at enmity between themselves. ¹³ And when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people, ¹⁴ Pilate said to them, You have brought this Man to me as perverting the people. And behold, having examined Him before you, I have found no fault in this Man regarding those things of which you accuse Him;

¹⁴ Pilate said to them, You have brought this Man to me as perverting the people. And behold, having examined Him before you, I have found no fault in this Man regarding those things of which you accuse Him; ¹⁵ no, nor even Herod, for I sent you to him, and lo, nothing worthy of death has been done by Him. ¹⁶ Therefore I will chastise Him and release Him. ¹⁷ (For it was necessary for him to release one to them at the feast.) ¹⁸ And they all cried out at once, saying, Away with this One! And release to us Barabbas ¹⁹ (who was thrown into prison because of a certain sedition made in the city, and for murder). ²⁰ And Pilate, willing to release Jesus, spoke again to them. ²¹ But they cried, saying, Crucify! Crucify Him!

²¹ But they cried, saying, Crucify! Crucify Him! ²² And he said to them the third time, Why? What evil has He done? I have found no cause of death in Him, therefore I will chastise Him and let Him go.

²² And he said to them the third time, Why? What evil has He done? I have found no cause of death in Him, therefore I will chastise Him and let Him go. ²³ But they pressed on him, with loud voices, requesting that He might be crucified. And their voices and those of the chief priests prevailed.

²³ But they pressed on him, with loud voices, requesting that He might be crucified. And their voices and those of the chief priests prevailed.

²³ But they pressed on him, with loud voices, requesting that He might be crucified. And their voices and those of the chief priests prevailed. ²⁴ And Pilate gave judgment that their request should be granted.

⁵¹ Does our law judge the Man before it hears Him and knows what He does?

³ And they will do these things to you because they have not known the Father nor Me.

²⁹ Then Pilate went out to them and said, What charge do you bring against this man? ³⁰ They answered and said to him, If he were not an evildoer, then we would not have delivered him up to you.

³⁸ Pilate said to Him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he went out again to the Jews and said to them, I find no fault in him.

¹³ Then when Pilate heard that saying, he brought Jesus out and sat down in the judgment seat at a place called the Pavement (but in the Hebrew, Gabbatha).

²² beginning from the baptism of John to that same day that He was taken up from us, to become a witness with us of His resurrection.

³² God raised up this Jesus, of which we all are witnesses.

¹³ And they set up false witnesses, who said, This man does not cease speaking blasphemous words against this holy place and the Law. ¹⁴ For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered to us.

⁴⁰ But Philip was found at Azotus. And passing through, he preached the gospel in all the cities until he came to Caesarea.

² and asked letters from him to Damascus to the synagogues; so that if he found any of the Way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

¹⁵ But the Lord said to him, Go! For this one is a chosen vessel to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.

²⁴ But their plot was known to Saul. And they watched the gates day and night in order to kill him.

³ And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he went further to seize Peter also. (And they were days of Unleavened Bread.)

²¹ And on a certain day, Herod sat on his throne, dressed in royal clothing, and made a speech to them.

³⁷ But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly, men who are Romans and uncondemned, they threw us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! But coming themselves, let them bring us out.

³⁷ But Paul said to them, Having beaten us publicly, men who are Romans and uncondemned, they threw us into prison. And now do they put us out secretly? No indeed! But coming themselves, let them bring us out. ³⁸ And the floggers reported these words to the judges. And hearing that they were Romans, they were afraid.

²² And standing in the middle of the Areopagus, Paul said, Men, Athenians, I see that you are fearful of gods in everything. ²³ For as I passed by and saw the things you worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Not knowing then whom you worship, I make Him known to you.

³¹ because He has appointed a day in which He is going to judge the world in righteousness by a Man whom He appointed, having given proof to all by raising Him from the dead.

¹² But Gallio being pro-consul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rushed against Paul and brought him to the judgment seat, ¹³ saying, This one persuades men to worship God contrary to the Law. ¹⁴ And Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed then, it was anything wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, according to reason I would endure you.

¹⁴ And Paul being about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If indeed then, it was anything wrong or wicked criminality, O Jews, according to reason I would endure you. ¹⁵ But if it is a question of a word and names, and of your law, you look to it. For I do not wish to be a judge of such things.

¹⁵ But if it is a question of a word and names, and of your law, you look to it. For I do not wish to be a judge of such things. ¹⁶ And he drove them from the judgment seat. ¹⁷ And all the Greeks seized Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment seat. And Gallio did not care for any of these things.

¹⁹ And he came to Ephesus and left them there. But he himself entered into the synagogue and reasoned with the Jews.

²² And when he had landed at Caesarea and had gone up to greet the church, he went down to Antioch.

²¹ After these things were ended, passing through Macedonia and Achaia, Paul purposed in the spirit to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have come there, I must also see Rome.

¹⁵ And after those days, making ready, we went up to Jerusalem.

²⁸ crying out, Men, Israelites, help! This is the man who teaches all everywhere against the people and the Law and this place. And even he brought Greeks into the temple and has polluted this holy place.

²² And they listened to him until this word, and then they lifted up their voice, saying, Take such a one from the earth! For it is not fitting that he should live.

²⁵ And as they stretched him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned?

²⁵ And as they stretched him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood by, Is it lawful for you to scourge a man who is a Roman and uncondemned? ²⁶ And hearing, coming near the centurion reported to the chiliarch, saying, Watch what you are about to do, for this man is a Roman. ²⁷ And coming up the chiliarch said to him, Tell me, are you a Roman? And He said, Yes. ²⁸ And the chiliarch answered, With a great sum I bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was even born free.

¹ And looking earnestly on the sanhedrin, Paul said, Men, brothers, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.

⁹ And there arose a great cry. And the scribes who were on the Pharisees' side arose and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, let us not fight against God.

¹¹ And the following night the Lord stood by him and said, Be of good cheer, Paul, for as you have testified of Me in Jerusalem, so you also must bear witness at Rome. ¹² And when it became day, some of the Jews banded together and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink until they had killed Paul. ¹³ And they who made this conspiracy were more than forty. 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 killed Paul. ¹⁵ Now therefore you, with the sanhedrin, inform the chiliarch that he bring him down to you tomorrow, as though you would inquire something more perfectly regarding him. And we are ready to put him to death before he comes near.

²⁹ whom I found be accused of questions of their law, and having no charge worthy of death or of bonds. ³⁰ And it being revealed to me that a plot against the man was about to be executed by the Jews, I immediately sent him to you, commanding his accusers also to say before you what they had against him. Farewell.

³⁴ And when the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. And when he understood that he was from Cilicia,

¹ And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and with a certain orator, Tertullus, who made a statement to the governor against Paul.

⁵ For we have found this man pestilent, and moving rebellion among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, ⁶ who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we took and would have judged according to our Law.

⁶ who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we took and would have judged according to our Law.

⁸ commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him, you yourself may know about all these things of which we accuse him.

¹² And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, nor making a gathering of a crowd; not even in the synagogues, nor throughout the city. ¹³ Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.

¹⁷ And after many years I came to bring alms and offerings to my nation. ¹⁸ Among which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with tumult. ¹⁹ These ought to be present before you and to accuse me, if they have anything against me. ²⁰ Or else let these themselves say if they have found anything unjust in me while I stood before the sanhedrin, ²¹ unless it may be for this one voice that I cried out standing among them, that concerning a resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you today.

²³ And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty, and not to forbid anyone of his own to minister or come to him.

²⁷ But after two years Felix welcomed a successor, Porcius Festus. And wishing to show a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

¹ Then entering the province, after three days Festus went from Caesarea to Jerusalem. ² And the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him ³ asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way.

³ asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way. ⁴ Then indeed Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea; he himself would depart shortly. ⁵ Then he said, those having power among you may go down with me. If there is a thing amiss in this man, let them accuse him.

⁵ Then he said, those having power among you may go down with me. If there is a thing amiss in this man, let them accuse him. ⁶ And staying among them more than ten days, going down to Caesarea, on the next day sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought. ⁷ And he having come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around and brought many charges against Paul, which they could not prove.

⁹ But Festus, wanting to please the Jews, answered Paul and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me about these things? ¹⁰ But Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.

¹⁰ But Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know. ¹¹ For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.

¹¹ For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar. ¹² Then conferring with the sanhedrin, Festus answered, You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go. ¹³ And after some days king Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to greet Festus.

¹⁵ about whom, when I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring judgment against him. ¹⁶ To them I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before he being accused may have the accusers face to face, and have had freedom to answer for himself concerning the accusation. ¹⁷ Therefore, when they had come here, without any delay I sat on the judgment seat the next day and commanded the man to be brought, ¹⁸ about whom, standing up, the accusers brought against him no charge of which I suspected, ¹⁹ but they had certain questions about their own demon-worship, and about a certain Jesus dying, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. ²⁰ And because I was perplexed about this question, I asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and be judged there about these matters. ²¹ But Paul having appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be held until I might send him to Caesar. ²² And Agrippa said to Festus, I also would like to hear the man myself. And he said, Tomorrow you shall hear him. ²³ And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp and had entered into the auditorium with both the chiliarchs and principal men of the city, also Festus commanding, Paul was brought out. ²⁴ And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those men present with us, you see this one about whom all the multitude of the Jews pleaded with me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. ²⁵ But I had perceived nothing he had committed worthy of death, and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him,

¹ And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then stretching out his hand, Paul made a defense: ² Concerning all of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I think myself happy being about to make defense before you today, ³ you being especially expert in all customs and questions among the Jews. Therefore I beseech you to hear me patiently.

⁹ I truly thought within myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth, ¹⁰ which I also did in Jerusalem. And I shut up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests. And they being put to death, I cast a vote. ¹¹ And I punished them often in every synagogue; I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly furious against them, I persecuted them even to the outside cities.

²² Then having obtained help from God, I stand until this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those which the prophets and Moses said was going to happen; ²³ whether the Christ was liable to suffer, whether first by a resurrection of the dead He was going to proclaim light to the people and to the nations.

²⁷ King Agrippa, do you believe the Prophets? I know that you believe. ²⁸ And Agrippa said to Paul, Do you persuade me to be a Christian in but a little?

³⁰ And he having spoken this, the king and the governor and Bernice and those who sat with them rose up. ³¹ And withdrawing, they spoke with one another, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds. ³² And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed to Caesar.

³² And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty if he had not appealed to Caesar.

¹⁶ And when we came into Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the camp commander. But Paul was allowed to dwell by himself, with a soldier guarding him. ¹⁷ And after three days it happened that Paul called together those being chief of the Jews. And they coming together, he said to them, Men, brothers, I did nothing against the people or customs of our fathers. I was delivered a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans ¹⁸ who, examining me, were of a mind to let me go because there was no cause of death in me. ¹⁹ But the Jews speaking against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar; not as having anything to accuse my nation.

²¹ And they said to him, We neither received letters out of Judea concerning you, nor have any of the brothers who came declared or spoke anything evil of you.

⁸ And not rather, (as we are wrongly accused, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do bad things that good may come? Their condemnation is just.

¹² "They are all gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable, there is none that does good, no, not one." ¹³ "Their throat is an open grave, with their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps is under their lips; ¹⁴ whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;" ¹⁵ "their feet are swift to shed blood; ¹⁶ destruction and misery are in their way, ¹⁷ and the way of peace they did not know." ¹⁸ "There is no fear of God before their eyes." ¹⁹ But we know that whatever things the Law says, it says to those who are under the Law; so that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may be under judgment before God,

²⁸ Therefore when I have completed this, and have sealed this fruit to them, I will come by you into Spain. ²⁹ And I am sure that when I come to you, I shall come in the fullness of the blessing of the gospel of Christ.

³¹ And they who use this world are as not abusing it, for the fashion of this world is passing away.

³ For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, that Christ died for our sins, according to the Scriptures, ⁴ and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures;

¹⁴ And if Christ has not been raised, then our proclamation is worthless, and your faith is also worthless. ¹⁵ And we are also found to be false witnesses of God, because we testified of God that He raised Christ; whom He did not raise if the dead are not raised. ¹⁶ For if the dead are not raised, then Christ is not raised. ¹⁷ And if Christ is not raised, your faith is foolish; you are yet in your sins. ¹⁸ Then also those that fell asleep in Christ were lost. ¹⁹ If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable. ²⁰ But now Christ has risen from the dead, and has become the firstfruit of those who slept.

¹² For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity; not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God; we have had our conduct in the world, and more abundantly toward you.

² But we have renounced the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the Word of God, but by the revelation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

¹⁰ For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive the things done through the body, according to that which he has done, whether good or bad.

¹² But I desire that you should understand, brothers, that the things which happened to me have fallen out rather to the furtherance of the gospel; ¹³ so that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in all other places. ¹⁴ And most of the brothers in the Lord, becoming confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the Word without fear.

²⁰ according to my earnest expectation and hope that I shall be ashamed in nothing, but as always now Christ shall be magnified in my body with all boldness, whether it is by life or by death.

¹⁵ who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, also driving us out and they do not please God and being contrary to all men,

¹⁶ At my first answer no one was beside me, but all deserted me. May it not be laid to their charge.

¹¹ For the sun rose with the hot wind and dried up the grass, and its flower fell out, and the beauty of its appearance perished; so also the rich one will fade away in his ways.

⁶ But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?

²⁴ For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of men as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls out,

¹⁴ If you are reviled for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of God and of glory rests on you. Truly according to them, He is blasphemed, but according to you He is glorified. ¹⁵ But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evildoer, or a meddler in the affairs of others. ¹⁶ But if one suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God because of this.

¹⁶ because all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

¹⁸ and the Living One, and I became dead, and behold, I am alive for ever and ever, Amen. And I have the keys of hell and of death.