Acts 23 Cross References - MLV

¹ Now Paul, having staring to ward the council, said, Men, brethren, I have behaved-as a Jewish citizen to ward God in all good conscience till this day.
² But the high-priest Ananias commanded to those who are standing beside him to beat his mouth.
³ Then Paul said to him, God is about to beat you, the whitewashed wall. And you sit judging me according to the law, and yet violating the law, you are commanding me to be beaten.
⁴ But those who are standing beside him said, Are you reviling God’s high-priest?
⁵ And Paul said, Brethren, I did not know that he was the high-priest; for it has been written, ‘You will not speak evilly of a ruler of your people.’ ⁶ But when Paul knew that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee. I am being judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead. ⁷ But when he said this, there became a dissension from the Pharisees and the multitude was split-apart. ⁸ (For the Sadducees indeed say that there is no resurrection, neither messenger nor spirit, but the Pharisees are confessing both.)
⁹ Now there became a great outcry, and part of the scribes of the Pharisees stood up and were quarreling, saying, We are finding no evil in this man, but if a spirit has spoken to him, or a messenger, we should not quarrel against God. ¹⁰ Now when much dissension happened, the commander, being scared, lest Paul might be torn to shreds by them, commanded the army to go down and seize him from the midst of them, and lead him back into the encampment.
¹¹ Now when the Lord stood by him the next night, he said, Paul, have courage; for as you have thoroughly testified concerning me in Jerusalem, so it is essential for you to also testify in Rome.
¹² Now when it became day, some of the Jews made a conspiracy and they vowed for themselves, saying, they were neither to eat nor to drink until they should have killed Paul. ¹³ Now they were more-than forty who had made this gang; ¹⁴ who came to the high-priests and the elders and said, We have vowed to be accursed, to taste nothing until we should have killed Paul. ¹⁵ Therefore now, you, together with the council, disclose it to the commander that he should be led to you the next-day, as if being about to investigate more accurately the things concerning him. Now we are ready to assassinate him before he draws near. ¹⁶ But Paul’s sister’s son, having heard of their murderous plot, came and entered into the encampment and reported to Paul. ¹⁷ Now Paul, having called one of the centurions, said, Lead this young-man away to the commander; for he has something to report to him.
¹⁸ Therefore indeed, he took him and led him to the commander and says, Paul the prisoner, having called me, asked me to lead this young-man to you, who has something to say to you.
¹⁹ Now the commander grabbed his hand and departed privately, and was inquiring, What is it that you have to report to me?
²⁰ Now he said, The Jews themselves have covenanted together to ask you that you should lead Paul into the Jewish council the next-day, as if being about to inquire more accurately something concerning him. ²¹ Therefore you, do not be persuaded by them; for more-than forty out of them are plotting against him, who have vowed for themselves neither to eat nor to drink until they should have assassinated him, and they are ready now, waiting for the promise from you.
²² Therefore indeed, the commander dismissed the young-man, having commanding him to tell no one that you have disclosed these things to me.


²³ And having called to him a certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare for the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, that they should travel to Caesarea, ²⁴ and animals to be present, that having mounted Paul upon one of them, they might save him for Felix the governor.
²⁵ Now he wrote a letter in this pattern containing:
²⁶ Claudius Lysias to the most-excellent governor Felix. Hail to you. ²⁷ When this man was taken by the Jews and being about to be assassinated by them, I stood up together with the soldiers and liberated him, having learned that he was a Roman. ²⁸ But planning to know the accusation (because of which they were accusing him), I led him into their council; ²⁹ whom I found to be accused concerning debates of their law, but having nothing in way of an accusation worthy of death or of bonds. ³⁰ But when it was divulged to me of a future pact by the Jews for the man, I promptly sent him to you, having also commanded his accusers to speak the things to him in front of you. Good-bye.
³¹ Therefore indeed, the soldiers, according to what had been commanded to them, took Paul and led him through the night to Antipatris. ³² But on the next-day, having permitted the horsemen to travel together with him, they returned to the encampment, ³³ who, having entered into Caesarea, and having given over the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him. ³⁴ Now the governor read the letter and having asked: What province is he from? And having inquired: he is from Cilicia. ³⁵ He was saying, I will hear you fully whenever your accusers have also come. And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s palace.

¹ A wicked man flees when no man pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

¹⁵ And all who sat in the council, having stared toward him, saw his face was like the face of a messenger.

¹ Brethren and fathers! Hear my defense which I now make to you.

⁵ As also the high-priest and all the eldership can testify of me; from whom I also accepted letters to the brethren, and I was traveling to Damascus and would be leading also the ones there who were bound to Jerusalem in order that they might be punished.

³⁰ But on the next-day, planning to know the certainty of why he is accused of something from the Jews, he loosed him from the bonds, and commanded the high-priests and their whole council to come and having led Paul there he stood him toward them.

⁶ But when Paul knew that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee. I am being judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead.

¹⁶ But I apply myself in this, having a guilt-free conscience always toward God and men.

⁴ For I have been conscious of nothing in myself, but I have not been made righteous in this thing. But he who is judging me is the Lord.

¹² For this is our boasting, the testimony of our conscience, that in clarity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom but in the grace of God, we conducted ourselves in the world and even-more toward you.

² But we ourselves have scoffed at the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor adulterating the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth, commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in God’s sight.

³ I have gratitude to God, to whom I am giving-divine service from my ancestors in a clean conscience, as I have constant remembrance concerning you in my supplications, night and day.

¹⁸ Pray concerning us; for we have confidence that we have a good conscience, wishing to conduct ourselves in a good manner in all things.

¹⁶ having a good conscience; in order that, in what they are speaking against you as evildoers, they may be ashamed who are railing at your good conduct in Christ.

²⁴ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near and killed* Micaiah on the cheek and said, Which way did the Spirit of Jehovah go from me to speak to you?

² Then Pashhur killed* Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in the house of Jehovah.

¹ Now you will gather yourself in troops, O daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will kill* the judge of Israel with a rod upon the cheek.

⁶⁷ Then they spat at his face and battered him, and some slapped him,

²² Now having said these things, one of the attendants standing beside him gave a slap on the cheek to Jesus, saying, Why are you answering the high-priest so?

¹ Now after five days, the high-priest Ananias with the elders and an orator came down, someone named Tertullus, who disclosed to the governor the charges against Paul.

¹⁵ You* will do no unrighteousness in judgment. You will not respect the person of the poor man, nor honor the person of the mighty man, but you will judge your neighbor in righteousness.

³⁵ You* will do no unrighteousness in judgment, in measures of length, of weight, or of quantity.

¹ If there is a controversy between men and they come to judgment and they judge them, then they will justify the righteous and condemn the iniquitous. ² And it will be, if the iniquitous man is deserving to be beaten, that the judge will cause him to lie down and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

¹ Do you* indeed speak righteousness in silence? Do you* judge in uprightness, O you* sons of men?
² No! You* work wickedness in heart. You* weigh out the violence of your* hands in the earth.

¹ God stands in the congregation of God. He judges among the gods. ² How long will you* judge unjustly and respect the persons of the wicked? Selah.

²⁰ Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by statute?

¹⁶ And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

⁷ You* who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth,

⁸ But as for me, I am full of power by the Spirit of Jehovah and of judgment and of might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.
⁹ Hear this, I beseech you*, you* heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity. ¹⁰ They build up Zion with blood and Jerusalem with unrighteousness. ¹¹ The heads of it judge for a bribe and the priests of it teach for a wage and the prophets of it divine for money.
Yet they lean upon Jehovah and say, Is not Jehovah in the midst of us? No evil will come upon us.

²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are similar to whitewashed burial chambers, which on the outside indeed appear beautiful, but inside are full of dead men’s bones, and full of all uncleanness. ²⁸ So on the outside you indeed appear also righteous to men, but inside, you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

⁵¹ Our law is not judging a man, if it does not hear from him beforehand and may know what he is doing, does it?

²⁴ Annas sent him to Caiaphas the high-priest, having been bound.

²⁸ You will not revile God, nor speak ill of a ruler of your people.

²⁰ Do not revile the king, no, not in your thought and do not revile the rich in your bedroom. Because a bird of the heavens will carry the voice and what has wings will tell the matter.

¹⁷ Now throughout many years, I came doing charity and offerings to my nation;

¹⁰ and especially those who are conducting-themselves after the flesh in the lust of defilement and while despising lordship. Daring and self-willed, they are not trembling when blaspheming heavenly glories;

⁸ Nevertheless, these also dreaming likewise, indeed are defiling the flesh and rejecting lordship and blaspheming the heavenly glories.
⁹ But Michael the archangel, when arguing with the devil, after he was reasoning concerning the body of Moses, he did not dare to bring a judging of blasphemy against him, but said, The Lord rebuke you.

¹⁶ Behold, I am sending you forth like sheep in the midst of wolves; therefore, become prudent like serpents and harmless like doves.

²³ In that day, the Sadducees came to him, saying that there is no resurrection, and they asked him,

¹⁵ I have hope toward God, which these themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and unrighteous.

²¹ or concerning this voice of which I cried out, standing among them. I am being judged by you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.

⁵ If they are willing to testify, (knowing me beforehand, from the start), that I lived as a Pharisee according to the strictest sect of our religion. ⁶ And now I am standing here, being judged against the hope of the promise which came by God to the fathers; ⁷ to which our twelve tribes, intensely giving-divine service to God night and day, are hoping to achieve of which hope I am accused by the Jews, O king!
⁸ Why is it judged as unbelievable with you, if God is raising the dead?

²⁰ Therefore, because of this accusation, I pleaded to see and to speak with you; for I am encompassed with this chain because of the hope of Israel.

⁵ I was circumcised on the eighth day, from the race of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew out of Hebrews; according to the law, a Pharisee;

⁹ Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongue, because I have seen violence and strife in the city.

³⁴ Do not suppose that I came to cast peace upon the earth; I did not come to cast peace, but a sword.

⁴⁰ Therefore many out of the crowd, having heard the word, said, This is truly the prophet.
⁴¹ Others were saying, This is the Christ. Others were saying, The Christ does not come out of Galilee, does he? ⁴² Did the Scripture not say that the Christ comes out of the seed of David and from Bethlehem, the village where David was? ⁴³ So there became a split in the crowd because of him.

⁴ But the multitude of the city was split-apart, and some were together with the Jews and those others together with the apostles.

¹⁸ And the Sadducees come to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him, saying,

²⁷ Now some of the Sadducees came to him, those who contradict the resurrection–there is no resurrection; and they asked him,

¹ Now while speaking to the people, the priests and the magistrate of the temple and the Sadducees stood by them,

¹⁷ And he said to David, You are more righteous than I, for you have rendered to me good, and I have rendered to you evil.

⁷ When a man's ways please Jehovah, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

¹⁶ And the scribes and the Pharisees, having seen him eating with the tax collectors and sinners, were saying to his disciples, Why is it that he is eating and drinking with tax collectors and sinners?

³⁰ And the Pharisees and their scribes were murmuring to his disciples, saying, Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?

⁴ Now Pilate said to the high-priests and the crowds, I am finding no crime in this man.

¹⁴ and said to them, You brought this man to me, as one turning away the people to riot, and behold, I have examined him in your sight, and found no crime in this man of which you accuse against him. ¹⁵ But even Herod found nothing. For he sent him back to you, and behold, nothing worthy of death has been done by him.

²² Now he said to them the third-time, For what evil has this one done? I have found no crime worthy of death in him; therefore, after having disciplined him, I will be releasing him.

²⁹ Therefore, the crowd standing there and heard it, was saying, Thunder has happened.
Others said, A messenger has spoken to him.

³⁹ but if it is from God, you will not be able to tear it down; lest you might be found even to be quarreling against God.

⁴ and having fallen upon the earth, he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

¹⁷ Therefore, if God gave to them the equal gift like he also did to us when we believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, now who was I, that I am able to forbid God?

⁷ And I fell to the solid-ground and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me?

¹⁷ Now it happened to me, having returned to Jerusalem, and in my praying in the temple, I came to be in a trance, ¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, Hurry, and go forth quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not be accepting the testimony from you concerning me.

⁸ (For the Sadducees indeed say that there is no resurrection, neither messenger nor spirit, but the Pharisees are confessing both.)

²⁹ whom I found to be accused concerning debates of their law, but having nothing in way of an accusation worthy of death or of bonds.

²⁵ But I am comprehending that he has practiced nothing worthy of death, and I decided to send him, since he himself had also appealed to the Emperor;

¹⁴ Now when all had fallen down to the earth, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is harsh for you to kick against the cattle-prods.
¹⁵ But I said, Who are you, Lord?
But the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting. ¹⁶ But rise up and stand upon your feet; for to this end I have appeared to you, to assign you to be an attendant and a witness both of the things which you have seen, and of the things which will be seen by you. ¹⁷ I will be liberating you from the Jewish people and from the Gentiles, to whom I am sending you, ¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of the Adversary to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among those who have been made holy in faith, the faith in me.
¹⁹ Hence, O King Agrippa, I did not become disobedient to the heavenly vision.

³¹ and having departed, they were speaking to one another, saying, This man is practicing nothing worthy of death or bonds.

²³ For there stood beside me this night a messenger of the God, whose I am, to whom I also am giving-divine service to,

²² Or are we provoking the Lord to jealousy? We are not mightier than him, are we?

² lest they tear my soul like a lion, tearing it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.

²² Now consider this, you* who forget God, lest I tear you* in pieces and there is none to deliver:

³ who also eat the flesh of my people and flay their skin from them and break their bones and chop them in pieces, as for the pot and as flesh within the caldron.

²⁸ Now having heard this, and having become full of fury, they were crying out, saying, Great is Artemis of Ephesus. ²⁹ And the whole city was filled with confusion and they rushed united into the theater, having seized Paul’s fellow traveling-associates, Gaius and Aristarchus, who were Macedonians. ³⁰ Now Paul was planning to enter into the public area, but the disciples were not permitting him. ³¹ But some also of those from Asia, being friends to him, and having sent for him, they were pleading with him not to give himself to the theater crowd.

³⁰ Now the whole city was moved and there happened to be a running of the people together, and grabbing Paul, they were dragging him outside the temple and immediately the doors were locked.
³¹ But while seeking to kill him, information came up to the commander of the cohort, that the whole Jerusalem has been incited to riot. ³² Who promptly, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. And those who saw the commander and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul. ³³ Now the commander drew near and grabbed him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he might be, and what he is doing. ³⁴ But some in the crowd were crying one thing, some another thing, and when he was not able to know the certainty of who he was because of the uproar, he commanded him to be led into the encampment. ³⁵ But when he came upon the steps, it befell him to be bore by the soldiers because of the violence of the crowd; ³⁶ for the multitude of the people was following after, crying out, Take him away.

²⁴ the commander commanded him to be led into the encampment, saying, He is to be interrogated by scourges, in order that he might fully know because of what crime they were shouting out against him so.

¹⁶ But Paul’s sister’s son, having heard of their murderous plot, came and entered into the encampment and reported to Paul.

²⁷ When this man was taken by the Jews and being about to be assassinated by them, I stood up together with the soldiers and liberated him, having learned that he was a Roman.

³² But on the next-day, having permitted the horsemen to travel together with him, they returned to the encampment,

¹⁹ So-then my beloved brethren, let every man be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

¹ God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
² Therefore we will not fear, though the earth changes and though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas,

³¹ Because he will stand at the right hand of the needy, to save him from those who judge his soul.

¹⁰ Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

¹⁴ Do not fear, you worm Jacob and you* men of Israel. I will help you, says Jehovah and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

² When you pass through the waters, I will be with you and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, nor will the flame kindle upon you.

¹⁰ declaring the end from the beginning and from long-ago things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel will stand and I will do all my pleasure,

¹⁹ Therefore Jehovah says thus: If you return, then I will bring you again that you may stand before me. And if you take forth the precious from the vile, you will be as my mouth. They will return to you, but you will not return to them.
²⁰ And I will make you to this people a fortified brazen wall. And they will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you. For I am with you to save you and to deliver you, says Jehovah. ²¹ And I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked and I will redeem you out of the hand of the terrible.

² And behold, they were bringing a paralytic to him, having been put upon a cot, and Jesus seeing their faith said to the paralytic, Child, have courage; your sins have been forgiven to you.

²⁷ But Jesus immediately spoke to them, saying, Have courage; it is I; do not be afraid.

²⁰ teaching them to observe all things, as many things as I have commanded you, and behold, I am with you all the days until the end of the earth.
Amen.

⁸ The disciples say to him, Rabbi, the Jews just now were seeking to stone you, and you are going back there again?
⁹ Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he is not stumbling, because he sees the light of this world. ¹⁰ But if anyone walks in the night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.

¹⁸ I will not be leaving you orphans. I am coming to you.

³³ I have spoken to you these things, in order that you may have peace in me. You have affliction in the world, but have courage; I have overcome the world.

²⁵ For David says in regard to him, ‘I am seeing the Lord always before my face, in my sight, because he is at my right hand, in order that I might not be shaken.

⁹ Now the Lord said to Paul through a vision in the night, Do not be afraid, but speak out and do not be silent,

²¹ Now as these things were fulfilled, Paul purposed in the spirit to travel to Jerusalem, after having gone through Macedonia and Achaia, and said, After I have come there, it is essential for me to also see Rome.

²² And now, behold, I travel to Jerusalem, having been bound in the spirit, not knowing the things which will be meeting with me there,

¹⁸ and saw him saying to me, Hurry, and go forth quickly out of Jerusalem, because they will not be accepting the testimony from you concerning me.

²² And hereafter, I am advising you to be cheerful; for there will be no termination of life from among you, however of the ship, yes. ²³ For there stood beside me this night a messenger of the God, whose I am, to whom I also am giving-divine service to, ²⁴ saying, Do not fear, Paul; it is essential for you to stand-before Caesar and behold, God has granted to you all those who are sailing with you. ²⁵ Hence, be cheerful, men; for I believe God, that it will be so according to the manner it has been spoken to me.

²³ Now having appointed him a day, they were coming to him, into the lodging in great number; to whom he was expounding the word, thoroughly testifying of the kingdom of God also persuading them with the things concerning Jesus, both from the Law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until dusk. ²⁴ And some were obeying and some were disbelieving the things which were spoken. ²⁵ But when they disagreed among themselves, they were dismissing themselves after Paul had spoken just one declaration, The Holy Spirit spoke well through Isaiah the prophet to our fathers, ²⁶ saying, ‘Travel to this people and say, In hearing you will hear and yet may never understand, and seeing you will see and yet may never see; ²⁷ for the heart of this people has become-callous and they have selectively heard with the ir ears and they have closed their eyes. Lest, they should see with the ir eyes and should hear with the ir ears and should understand with the ir heart and should return and I will be healing them.’
²⁸ Therefore let it be known to you, that this salvation from God is sent to the Gentiles and they will be hearing it. ²⁹ And having said these things, the Jews went away, having much debate among themselves.
³⁰ Now Paul remained two whole years in his own rented-house and was accepting all who traveled to him, ³¹ preaching the kingdom of God and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, unforbidden by any.

¹⁵ So, as in me, I am eager to proclaim the good-news to you also who are in Rome.
¹⁶ For I am not ashamed of the good-news of the Christ; for it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes; both to the Jew first and to the Greek.

⁸ For brethren, we do not wish you to be ignorant in regard to our affliction which happened to us in Asia, that we were burdened down surpassingly, beyond our power, so-that we despaired even to be living. ⁹ But, we ourselves have had the verdict of death in ourselves, in order that we should not have confidence in ourselves, but in God, who is raising up the dead; ¹⁰ who rescued us out of so-great a death and is rescuing us; in whom we have hoped that he will also still be rescuing us.

¹³ so-that my bonds became apparent in Christ in the whole palace guard and to all the rest;

¹⁷ But the Lord stood beside me and empowered me; in order that the preaching might be fully assured through me and in order that all the Gentiles might hear and I was rescued out of the mouth of the lion.

²⁹ No one set apart, who will be set apart from among men, will be ransomed; he will surely be put to death.

²⁶ And Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Jehovah who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay the foundation of it and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up the gates of it.

¹ But the sons of Israel committed a trespass in what was set apart. For Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took from what was set apart and the anger of Jehovah was kindled against the sons of Israel.

¹⁵ And it will be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing will be burnt with fire, he and all that he has, because he has transgressed the covenant of Jehovah and because he has done senselessness in Israel.

²⁴ And the men of Israel were distressed that day, for Saul had put the people under an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until it is evening and I am avenged on my enemies. So none of the people tasted food.

²⁷ But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath, therefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand and dipped it in the honeycomb and put his hand to his mouth and his eyes were enlightened. ²⁸ Then one of the people answered and said, Your father strictly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man who eats food this day and the people were faint.

⁴⁰ Then he said to all Israel, Be you* on one side and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said to Saul, Do what seems good to you.
⁴¹ Therefore Saul said to Jehovah, the God of Israel, Show the right. And Jonathan and Saul were taken by lot, but the people escaped. ⁴² And Saul said, Cast lots between me and Jonathan my son. And Jonathan was taken.
⁴³ Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done. And Jonathan told him and said, I did certainly taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand. And behold, I must die. ⁴⁴ And Saul said, God do so and more also, for you will surely die, Jonathan.

² Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods do to me and more also, if I do not make your life as the life of one of them by tomorrow about this time.

³¹ Then he said, God do so to me and more also, if the head of Elisha the son of Shaphat will stand on him this day.

²⁹ they clung to their brothers, their ranking men and entered into a curse and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God and to observe and do all the commandments of Jehovah our Lord and his ordinances and his statutes.

¹ Why do the nations rage and the peoples meditate vain things? ² The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together, against Jehovah and against his anointed, saying, ³ Let us break their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us.

¹³ Because I have heard the slander of many. Terror was on every side, while they took counsel together against me. They devised to take away my life.

² Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, from the tumult of the workers of wickedness, ³ who have flashed their tongue like a sword and have aimed their arrows, even bitter words, ⁴ that they may shoot in secret places at a blameless man. Suddenly do they shoot at him and do not fear.
⁵ They encourage themselves in an evil purpose. They speak of laying snares secretly. They say, Who will see them?
⁶ They search out iniquities, saying, We have accomplished a diligent search. And the inward part of man and the heart are deep.

⁹ Make an uproar, O you* peoples and be broken in pieces. And listen, all you* of far countries. Gird yourselves and be broken in pieces. Gird yourselves and be broken in pieces. ¹⁰ Take counsel together and it will be brought to nothing. Speak the word and it will not stand, for God is with us.

¹⁹ But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. And I did not know that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit of it. And let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may no more be remembered.

⁴ and they counseled together in order that they might take-hold of Jesus with treachery, and might kill him.

⁷⁴ Then he began to curse and to swear, I do not know the man. Now immediately, the rooster crowed.

²⁵ And all the people answered and said, His blood is upon us and upon our children.

²³ And he swore to her, Whatever you might ask me, I will be giving it to you, up to half of my kingdom.
²⁴ Now she went out and said to her mother, What shall I ask for?
Now she said, The head of John the Immerser.
²⁵ And she came in promptly to the king and diligently asked, saying, I wish that you might give me immediately the head of John the Immerser upon a platter.
²⁶ And the king became very sorrowful, but because of his oaths and those who reclined at the meal together with him, he did not wish to reject her.

¹⁴ who came to the high-priests and the elders and said, We have vowed to be accursed, to taste nothing until we should have killed Paul.

²¹ Therefore you, do not be persuaded by them; for more-than forty out of them are plotting against him, who have vowed for themselves neither to eat nor to drink until they should have assassinated him, and they are ready now, waiting for the promise from you.

³⁰ But when it was divulged to me of a future pact by the Jews for the man, I promptly sent him to you, having also commanded his accusers to speak the things to him in front of you. Good-bye.

³ asking for a favor against him, that he might send for him to come to Jerusalem; making a plot to assassinate him on the road.

²² If anyone does not love the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. The Lord has come!

¹³ Christ bought us up out of the curse of the law, having become a curse on our behalf; for it has been written, ‘Cursed is everyone who hangs upon a tree,’

¹² And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David's counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.

³¹ And it was told David, saying, Ahithophel is among the conspirators with Absalom. And David said, O Jehovah, I beseech you, turn the counsel of Ahithophel into foolishness.

² They will be expelling you from the synagogues. But the hour is coming, that everyone who kills you may think that he is offering divine service to God.

¹ Why boast you yourself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God is continual. ² Your tongue devises wickedness, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

⁹ The show of their countenance witnesses against them and they declare their sin as Sodom; they do not hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have done evil to themselves.

¹⁵ Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. At the time that I visit them they will be cast down, says Jehovah.

¹² Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? No, they were not at all ashamed, nor could they blush. Therefore they will fall among those who fall. In the time of their visitation they will be cast down, says Jehovah.

⁹ And it will be, like people, like priest. And I will punish them for their ways and will requite them for their practices.

³ Their hands are upon what is evil to do it diligently. The ruler asks and the judge asks for a bribe. And the great man, he utters the evil desire of his soul. Thus they weave it together.

¹² Now when it became day, some of the Jews made a conspiracy and they vowed for themselves, saying, they were neither to eat nor to drink until they should have killed Paul.

¹¹ Because they intended evil against you. They conceived a device which they are not able to perform.

³² A wicked man watches a righteous man and seeks to kill him. ³³ Jehovah will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

¹¹ If they say, Come with us. Let us lay wait for blood. Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause. ¹² Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol and whole, as those who go down into the pit.

¹⁶ Because their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.

¹⁶ Because they do not sleep unless they do evil. And their sleep is taken away unless they cause you to fall.

⁷ Their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are thoughts of wickedness. Desolation and destruction are in their paths.

³⁰ But on the next-day, planning to know the certainty of why he is accused of something from the Jews, he loosed him from the bonds, and commanded the high-priests and their whole council to come and having led Paul there he stood him toward them.

¹⁴ ‘Whose mouth is full of evil-cursing and bitterness.’ ¹⁵ ‘Their feet are swift to shed blood; ¹⁶ downfall and miseries are in their ways;

¹⁷ Now Jonathan and Ahimaaz were staying by En-rogel. And a maid-servant used to go and tell them and they went and told king David, for they might not be seen to come into the city.

¹³ He takes the wise in their own craftiness and the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

³⁰ There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Jehovah.

³⁷ Who is he that says and it happens, when the Lord does not command it?

³⁴ But some in the crowd were crying one thing, some another thing, and when he was not able to know the certainty of who he was because of the uproar, he commanded him to be led into the encampment.

¹⁰ Now when much dissension happened, the commander, being scared, lest Paul might be torn to shreds by them, commanded the army to go down and seize him from the midst of them, and lead him back into the encampment.

¹⁹ For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it has been written, ‘ It is he who grabs the wise in their craftiness';

³ A prudent man sees the evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and suffer for it.

⁸ And the centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not sufficient that you should come under my roof, but only speak by word and my young-servant will be healed. ⁹ For I am a man also under authority, having soldiers under me and I say to this one, Travel on and he travels on, and to another, Come and he comes, and to my bondservant, Do this and he does it.

²⁶ But when the centurion heard it, he went to the commander and reported to him, saying, Behold, what are you about to do? For this man is a Roman.

²³ And having called to him a certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare for the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, that they should travel to Caesarea,

¹⁴ But have me in your remembrance when it will be well with you and I beseech you, show kindness to me and make mention of me to Pharaoh and bring me out of this house. ¹⁵ For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews and here also I have done nothing that they should put me into the pit.

⁴⁰ And Jesus answered and said to him, Simon, I have something to say to you.
But he says, Teacher, say it.

²⁵ But toward midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God and the prisoners were their audience;

¹ Now as it was decided for us to sail toward Italy, and they were giving to a centurion, Julius by name, from the Emperor’s cohort, Paul and some other prisoners.

¹⁷ Now after three days Paul happened to call together those who are the foremost of the Jews and when they came together, he said to them, Brethren, I have done nothing adverse to the Jewish people or the customs of our forefathers. I, a prisoner from Jerusalem, was given up into the hands of the Romans.

¹ Because of this, I, Paul, am the prisoner of Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles,

¹ Therefore, I, the prisoner in the Lord, am encouraging you to walk worthily of the calling in which you were called,

⁹ yet because of love I would rather encourage you, being such a one as Paul the elderly-man and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

⁴ Then the king said to me, For what do you make request? So I prayed to the God of heaven.

³ Then the king said to her, What do you will, queen Esther? And what is your request? It will be given you even to the half of the kingdom.

² And the king said again to Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is your petition, queen Esther? And it will be granted you. And what is your request? Even to the half of the kingdom it will be performed.

¹² And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace and the ten sons of Haman. What then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now what is your petition? And it will be granted you, or what is your request further? And it will be done.

³² not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, because they did not continue in my covenant and I disregarded them, says Jehovah.

²³ And grabbing the blind man by the hand, he led him outside the village, and having spit into his eyes and laid his hands upon him, he asked him if he sees anything.

²⁷ But having taken-hold of him by the hand, Jesus lifted him up, and he stood up.

⁵¹ And Jesus answered and says to him, What do you wish that I might do for you?
Now the blind man said to him, Rabboni, that I may recover my sight.

² They speak falsehood everyone with his neighbor. They speak with a flattering lip and with a double heart.

⁵ Then these men said, We will not find any occasion against this Daniel unless we find it against him concerning the law of his God.
⁶ Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king and said thus to him: King Darius, live forever. ⁷ All the presidents of the kingdom, the deputies and the satraps, the counselors and the governors, have consulted together to establish a royal statute and to make a strong interdict, that whoever will ask a petition of any god or man for thirty days, except of you, O king, he will be cast into the den of lions.
⁸ Now, O king, establish the interdict and sign the writing, that it is not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter. ⁹ Therefore king Darius signed the writing and the interdict.
¹⁰ And when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house (now his windows were open in his chamber toward Jerusalem) and he knelt upon his knees three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God, as he did formerly.
¹¹ Then these men assembled together and found Daniel making petition and supplication before his God. ¹² Then they came near and spoke before the king concerning the king's interdict. Have you not signed an interdict, that every man who will make petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, will be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which does not alter.

¹ Now Paul, having staring to ward the council, said, Men, brethren, I have behaved-as a Jewish citizen to ward God in all good conscience till this day.

¹⁴ who came to the high-priests and the elders and said, We have vowed to be accursed, to taste nothing until we should have killed Paul. ¹⁵ Therefore now, you, together with the council, disclose it to the commander that he should be led to you the next-day, as if being about to investigate more accurately the things concerning him. Now we are ready to assassinate him before he draws near.

² You will not follow a multitude to do evil, neither will you speak in a case to turn aside after a multitude to distort justice,

²³ Now as a considerable number of days were being fulfilled, the Jews planned together to assassinate him; ²⁴ but their pact became known to Saul. And they were guarding the gates both day and night that they might assassinate him.

⁵ Now as it became an impulse of both of the Gentiles and of the Jews, together with their rulers, to abuse them and to stone them, ⁶ being conscious of it, they fled for refuge to the cities of Lycaonia, Lystra and Derbe, and the region around them.

¹⁹ serving the Lord with all humility and from many tears, and from tests which befell me among the pacts of the Jews;

¹² Now when it became day, some of the Jews made a conspiracy and they vowed for themselves, saying, they were neither to eat nor to drink until they should have killed Paul. ¹³ Now they were more-than forty who had made this gang; ¹⁴ who came to the high-priests and the elders and said, We have vowed to be accursed, to taste nothing until we should have killed Paul.

³ For I was praying for myself to be accursed from the Christ on behalf of my brethren, my relatives according to the flesh,

²⁶ often in journeys, in perils of rivers, in perils of robbers, in perils from my own race, in perils from the Gentiles, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils by false brethren;

³² In Damascus the Ethnarch of Aretas, the king, was guarding the Damascenes’city, wishing to arrest me; ³³ and I was lowered through a window in a hamper and through the wall and fled away from his hands.

¹⁴ And the men said to her, Our life for yours* if you* do not utter this our business. And it will be, when Jehovah gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you.

⁴⁴ and says to him, See that you say nothing to anyone, but go; show yourself to the priest, and offer the things which Moses commanded concerning your cleansing for a testimony to them.

²⁵ Now in the fourth watch of the night Jesus went to them, walking upon the sea.

³⁸ And if he comes in the second watch, and in the third, and should find them so, those are fortunate bondservants.
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⁴⁰ But Philip was found in Azotus and going through, he was proclaiming the good-news to all the cities, until he came to Caesarea.

³³ who, having entered into Caesarea, and having given over the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him.

¹² And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me. I neither told any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem, nor was there any beast with me except the beast that I rode upon.

¹² upon one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, upon the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.

² and they bound him and led him away and gave him to Pontius Pilate the governor.

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being Tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip, Tetrarch of the region made up of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias being Tetrarch of Abilene,

³⁴ And having come near to him, he bound up his trauma, pouring on them oil and wine, and having mounted him upon his own animal, led him to an inn and cared for him.

²⁶ Claudius Lysias to the most-excellent governor Felix. Hail to you.

³³ who, having entered into Caesarea, and having given over the letter to the governor, also presented Paul to him.

¹⁰ Now when the governor had signaled to him to speak, Paul answered, Having known you are a judge to this nation out of many years experience. I am cheerfully making my defense of these things concerning myself.

²² But Felix, having heard these things and knowing more accurately concerning The Way, postponed judging them, saying, Whenever Lysias the commander comes down, I will be investigating the things against you. ²³ And he himself commanded the centurion to guard Paul and for him to have relief and to forbid none of his own to attend or come near to him.
²⁴ Now after some days, Felix came together with Drusilla, his wife, being a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. ²⁵ But while reasoning concerning righteousness and self-control and the future judgment which will be, Felix having become fearful, answered, Travel on now, and when I take the next opportunity, I myself will call you. ²⁶ (He was hoping at the same time that monies will be given to him by Paul, that he might loose him.) Hence, he sent for him frequently, and was conversing with him. ²⁷ But when two years were fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus, and wishing to lay up favors for himself with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

¹⁴ Now as they were staying there many days, Festus submitted to the King, the things according to Paul’s case, saying, There is a certain man, a prisoner, who is left behind by Felix;

³ it also seemed good to me, having followed accurately in all things from the start, to write to you afterwards, most-excellent Theophilus;

²³ They wrote these things through their hand:
The apostles and the elders and brethren, to the brethren, those from the Gentiles in Antioch and Syria and Cilicia. Hail to you!

³ We are accepting it both in all things and everywhere, with all thanksgiving, most-excellent Felix.

²⁵ But Paul says, I am not insane, most-excellent Festus, but I am speaking out the words of truth and self-discipline.

¹ James, a bondservant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes, those who are in the dispersion. Hail to you!

¹⁴ But I hope to see you immediately and we will be speaking mouth to mouth

³¹ But while seeking to kill him, information came up to the commander of the cohort, that the whole Jerusalem has been incited to riot. ³² Who promptly, having taken soldiers and centurions, ran down upon them. And those who saw the commander and the soldiers, ceased beating Paul. ³³ Now the commander drew near and grabbed him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he might be, and what he is doing.

²⁵ But as they stretched him out with the straps, Paul said to the centurion who is standing there, Is it legal for you to scourge a Roman man and uncondemned?
²⁶ But when the centurion heard it, he went to the commander and reported to him, saying, Behold, what are you about to do? For this man is a Roman.
²⁷ Now the commander came and said to him, Tell me if you are a Roman.
Now he said, Yes.
²⁸ And the commander answered, I procured this citizenship of a large sum.
But Paul said, But I have even been Roman born.
²⁹ Therefore those who are about to interrogate him immediately withdrew from him. The commander was also afraid, having recognized that he is a Roman, and because he was binding him.

⁶ who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also took-hold of. And was willing to be judged according to our law. \ulnone\nosupersub

¹⁵ But if there are debates concerning words and names and law which is according to you, you will see to it yourselves; for I am not willing to be a judge of these things.

⁶ But when Paul knew that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee. I am being judged concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead. ⁷ But when he said this, there became a dissension from the Pharisees and the multitude was split-apart. ⁸ (For the Sadducees indeed say that there is no resurrection, neither messenger nor spirit, but the Pharisees are confessing both.)
⁹ Now there became a great outcry, and part of the scribes of the Pharisees stood up and were quarreling, saying, We are finding no evil in this man, but if a spirit has spoken to him, or a messenger, we should not quarrel against God.

⁵ For we have found this man a plague, and he is moving this dissension to all the Jews throughout the inhabited-earth. And he is a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes; ⁶ who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also took-hold of. And was willing to be judged according to our law. \ulnone\nosupersub

¹⁰ Now when the governor had signaled to him to speak, Paul answered, Having known you are a judge to this nation out of many years experience. I am cheerfully making my defense of these things concerning myself. ¹¹ You surely are able to know that it is not more-than twelve days to me from which time I went up to worship in Jerusalem; ¹² and they did not find me reasoning angrily with anyone, or making a hostile gathering of the crowd in the temple, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city, ¹³ nor are they able to present things concerning me, of which they are now accusing me. ¹⁴ But I confess this thing to you, that thus I am giving-divine service to the God of our forefathers according to The Way, which they call a sect, believing all things which are according to the law and which have been written in the prophets. ¹⁵ I have hope toward God, which these themselves also wait for, that there is about to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the righteous and unrighteous. ¹⁶ But I apply myself in this, having a guilt-free conscience always toward God and men. ¹⁷ Now throughout many years, I came doing charity and offerings to my nation; ¹⁸ in which they found me, having been purified in the temple, not with a crowd, nor with an uproar with some Jews from Asia, ¹⁹ who ought to be here and to accuse me in front of you, if they have anything to accuse me. ²⁰ Or let these men themselves say what wrongdoing they found in me when I stood in front of the council, ²¹ or concerning this voice of which I cried out, standing among them. I am being judged by you today concerning the resurrection of the dead.

⁷ Now when he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and cruel accusations against Paul, which they were not strong-enough to show.
⁸ Then Paul, making his defense, said, Neither against the law of the Jews nor against the temple nor against Caesar, have I sinned in anything.

¹¹ For if I indeed am wronging anyone, and have practiced anything worthy of death, I do not renounce to die, but if there is nothing of what these are accusing me; no one is able to grant me to them. I myself am appealing to Caesar.

¹⁹ but they were having some debates with him concerning their own religion and concerning someone named Jesus, who had died, whom Paul was claiming to be living. ²⁰ But I, being perplexed as to the debate concerning this, was saying to him, if he plans to travel to Jerusalem and to be judged there concerning these things.

¹⁸ The Romans who, having examined me, were planning to release me, because no crime exists worthy of death in me.

²⁴ but their pact became known to Saul. And they were guarding the gates both day and night that they might assassinate him.

²⁹ that you abstain from idol-sacrifices, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication. Keeping yourselves away from these things; you will be practicing well.
Good-bye.

²⁰ Now he said, The Jews themselves have covenanted together to ask you that you should lead Paul into the Jewish council the next-day, as if being about to inquire more accurately something concerning him.

³⁵ He was saying, I will hear you fully whenever your accusers have also come. And he commanded him to be guarded in Herod’s palace.

⁶ who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also took-hold of. And was willing to be judged according to our law. \ulnone\nosupersub ⁷ Now Lysias the commander having come near, with much violence, did take away Paul out of our hands, \ulnone\nosupersub ⁸ having commanded his accusers to come to you. From whom, having examined him, you will be able to fully know concerning all these things of which we are accusing him.

¹⁹ who ought to be here and to accuse me in front of you, if they have anything to accuse me.

⁵ Therefore he says, The mighty ones among you go down together with me if there is anything evil in this man, let them accuse him.
⁶ Now having stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea. On the next-day having sat upon the judicial-seat, he commanded Paul to be led before him.

¹⁶ To whom I answered, It is not a custom with Romans to grant as a favor any man to destruction, even before he who is accused, might have the accusers face to face, and might receive a chance for defense concerning the accusation.

¹¹ Furthermore brethren: rejoice; be completed; be comforted; be mindful of the same thing; be at peace; and the God of love and peace will be with you.

⁸ For I am also a man appointed under authority, having soldiers under myself, and I say to this one, Travel and he travels, and to another, Come and he comes, and to my bondservant, Do this and he does it.

²³ And having called to him a certain two of the centurions, he said, Prepare for the third hour of the night two hundred soldiers and seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen, that they should travel to Caesarea, ²⁴ and animals to be present, that having mounted Paul upon one of them, they might save him for Felix the governor.

³ Therefore suffer evil treatment as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. ⁴ No active soldier entangles himself in the tradeoffs of this life, in order that he may please the one who enlisted him as a soldier.

¹⁶ Now when we came to Rome, the centurion gave the prisoners to the camp-commander, but Paul was permitted to abide by himself together with the soldier guarding him.

¹ Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces),

⁹ Then the king's scribes were called at that time, in the third month Sivan, on the twenty-third day of it. And it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and rulers of the provinces which are from India to Ethiopia, a hundred twenty-seven provinces, to every province according to the writing of it and to every people after their language and to the Jews according to their writing and according to their language.

⁴⁹ And Daniel requested of the king and he appointed Shadrach, Meshach and Abed-nego, over the affairs of the province of Babylon, but Daniel was in the gate of the king.

¹ It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom,

⁶ But when Pilate heard it, he asked if the man was a Galilean.

⁹ But there stood up some of those who were of the synagogue called the Synagogue of the Freedmen both those from Cyrene and from Alexandria, and those from Cilicia and Asia, debating together with Stephen.

⁴¹ Now he was going through Syria and Cilicia, further strengthening the congregations.

³⁹ But Paul said, I am a Jew, indeed a man from Tarsus in Cilicia, a citizen of no insignificant city, and I beseech of you, permit me to speak to the people.

¹ Therefore after three days, having stepped into the province, Festus went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

¹ Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise-men from the east came into Jerusalem,

³ Now when Herod the king heard it, he was disturbed and everyone in Jerusalem with him.

¹⁶ Then Herod, having seen that he was mocked by the wise-men, was exceedingly furious, and sent forth soldiers and assassinated all the boys who were in Bethlehem, and in all her borders, from two years and downward, according to the time which he had ascertained accurately from the wise-men.

²⁷ Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the palace and gathered together the whole cohort upon him.

²⁸ Therefore they lead Jesus from Caiaphas into the palace, and it was morning, and they themselves did not enter into the palace, in order that they might not be defiled, but in order that they might eat the Passover.

²² But Felix, having heard these things and knowing more accurately concerning The Way, postponed judging them, saying, Whenever Lysias the commander comes down, I will be investigating the things against you.