Acts 25:8 Cross References - MLV

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.

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.

¹⁸ Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, How have I sinned against you, or against your servants, or against this people, that you* have put me in prison?

²² My God has sent his messenger and has shut the lions' mouths and they have not hurt me, inasmuch as before him innocence was found in me. And also before you, O king, I have done no harm.

¹³ And false witnesses stood up, who said, This man is not ceasing to speak blasphemous declarations against this holy place and the law; ¹⁴ for we have heard him saying, that this Jesus the Nazarene will be tearing-down this place and will be changing the customs which Moses gave to us.

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.

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

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,

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.

¹⁰ But Paul said, I am standing in front of Caesar’s judicial-seat, where it is essential for me to be judged. I did not wrong the Jews, as you also fully well know.

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.

²¹ But they said to him, We neither accepted writings from Judea concerning you, nor did anyone of the brethren come here and report or speak anything evil concerning you.

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.