Acts 25:11 Cross References - Thomson

¹¹ If indeed I am guilty, or have committed any capital crime, I do not deprecate death: but if the charges which they bring against me be groundless, no man can give me up to gratify them. I appeal to Caesar.

²² The Lord God is our God, and God himself our God hath seen, and Israel themselves may determine. If through apostacy we have trespassed in the sight of the Lord, let him not this day deliver us.

³ Here I am. Bring your complaints against me before the Lord, and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom among you have I oppressed? or whom have I aggrieved? or from whose hand have I taken a bribe, even to a shoe latchet? Witness against me, and I will make you restitution. ⁴ Thereupon they said to Samuel, Thou hast not injured us; nor tyrannised over us; nor afflicted us; nor taken any thing from the hand of any man. ⁵ Then Samuel said to the people, The Lord is a witness among you, and his anointed is this day a witness, that you have found nothing in my hand. And they said, He is a witness.

¹ But David spoke in his heart, saying, I may one day fall into the hands of Saul. Is it not best for me to make my escape to the land of the Philistines, so that Saul may cease from seeking me in the borders of Israel? So shall I escape out of his hand.

²¹ If I have raised a hand against the fatherless, because I had around me greater support:

³⁸ if ever my ground hath cried out against me, and the furrows thereof joined in the complaint: ³⁹ if I have eaten alone the strength thereof without money, and by rapine caused the heart of the owner of the soil to grieve: ⁴⁰ let nettles spring up for me instead of wheat, and bramble bushes instead of barley.

³ Lord, my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands: ⁴ if I have requited them evil who did me wrong; let me fall by mine enemies as a Worthless man: ⁵ let mine enemy pursue my soul and take it; let him tread down my life to the earth and lay my honour in the dust.

³⁷ Paul said to them, Having scourged us publicly without a trial, men who are Roman citizens, they have cast us into prison, and now discharge us privately!

¹⁴ And when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, If it were indeed some act of injustice or malicious villainy, I could with reason, O Jews, bear with you.

²⁵ But while they were straining 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 hath not had a trial.

¹⁰ Upon which Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as thou thyself well knowest.

²¹ But Paul having appealed that his cause should be referred to the cognisance of the Emperor, I ordered him to be kept in custody, till I can send him to Caesar.

²⁵ But as for me, finding that he had done nothing which deserved death, and he himself having appealed to the Emperor, I have determined to send him.

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

¹⁹ But the Jews opposing this, I was forced to appeal to Caesar, not that I have any thing to lay to the charge of my nation.

¹⁵ [from those indeed who slew the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and persecuted us, and who please not God, and are in opposition to all men,