Acts 28:17 Cross References - Tyndale

¹⁷ And it fortuned after thre dayes that Paul called ye chefe of ye Iewes together. And whe they were come he sayde vnto the: Men and brethren though I have comitted nothinge agaynst the people or lawes of oure fathers: yet was I delyvered presoner from Ierusalem in to the hondes of ye Romayns.

¹⁵ for I was stollen out of the lande of the Hebrues and here also haue I done nothige at all wherfore they shulde haue put me in to this dongeon.

¹⁴ for we hearde him saye: this Iesus of Nazareth shall destroye this place and shall chaunge the ordinaunces which Moses gave vs.

³³ Then the captayne came neare and toke him and comaunded him to be bounde with two chaynes and demaunded what he was and what he had done. ³⁴ And one cryed this another that amoge the people. And whe he coulde not knowe the certayntie for ye rage he comaunded him to be caryed into the castle. ³⁵ And whe he came vnto a grece it fortuned that he was borne of the soudiers of the violence of the people. ³⁶ For the multitude of the people folowed after cryinge: awaye wt him. ³⁷ And as Paul shuld have bene caryed into the castle he sayde vnto the hye Captayne: maye I speake vnto the? Which sayde: canst thou speake Greke? ³⁸ Arte not thou that Egypcian which before these dayes made an vproure and ledde out into the wildernes .iiii. thousande men that were mortherers? ³⁹ But Paul sayde: I am a ma which am a Iewe of Tharsus a cite in Cicill a Citesyn of no vyle cite I beseche ye soffre me to speake vnto ye people. ⁴⁰ When he had geve him licece Paul stode on ye steppes and beckned with the honde vuto the people and ther was made a greate silence. And he spake vnto the in ye Ebrue tonge sayinge:

⁵ as the chefe prest doth beare me witnes and all the elders: of whom also I receaved letters vnto the brethren and wet to Damasco to bringe them which were there bounde vnto Ierusalem for to be punysshed.

¹ Paul behelde the counsell and sayde: men and brethre I have lived in all good coscience before God vntill this daye. ² The hye prest Ananias comaunded the that stode by to smyte him on the mouth. ³ Then sayde Paul to him: God smyte the thou payntyd wall. Sittest thou and iudgest me after the lawe: and commaundest me to be smytten contrary to the lawe? ⁴ And they that stode by sayde: revylest thou Goddes hye preste? ⁵ Then sayd Paul: I wist not brethren that he was the hye preste. For it is writte thou shalt not curse the rular of thy people. ⁶ When Paul perceaved that the one parte were Saduces and the other Pharises: he cryed oute in the counsell. Men and brethren I am a Pharisaye the sonne of a Pharisaye. Of the hope and resurreccion fro deeth I am iudged. ⁷ And when he had so sayde ther arose a debate bitwene the Pharisayes and ye Saduces and the multitude was devided. ⁸ For ye Saduces saye that ther is no resurreccio nether angell nor sprete. But the Pharisayes graunt bothe. ⁹ And ther arose a great crye and the Scribes which were of the Pharisayes parte arose and strove sayinge: we fynde none evyll in this man. Though a sprete or an angell hath apered to him let vs not stryve agaynst God. ¹⁰ And when ther arose greate debate the captayne fearynge lest Paul shuld have bene pluckt asondre of them comaunded the soudiers to goo doune and to take him from amonge them and to bringe him into the castle. ¹¹ The nyght folowyng God stode by him and sayde: Be of good cheare Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Ierusalem so must thou beare witnes at Rome.

³³ Which when they cam to Cesarea they delivered the epistle to the debite and presented Paul before him.

¹⁰ Then Paul (after that the rular him selfe had beckened vnto him that he shuld speake) answered: I shall with a moare quyet minde answere for my selfe for as moche as I vnderstonde yt thou hast bene of many yeares a iudge vnto this people ¹¹ because that thou mayst knowe yt there are yet .xii. dayes sence I went vp to Ierusalem for to praye ¹² and that they nether founde me in the teple disputinge with eny man other raysinge vp the people nether in the Synagoges nor in the cite. ¹³ Nether can they prove ye thinges wher of they accuse me. ¹⁴ But this I confesse vnto ye that after that waye (which they call heresy) so worshippe I the God of my fathers belevinge all thinges which are writte in the lawe and ye Prophetes ¹⁵ and have hope towardes God that ye same resurreccion from deeth (which they them selves loke for also) shalbe both of iust and vniust. ¹⁶ And therfore stody I to have a cleare consciece towarde God and toward man also.

² Then enformed him the hye prestes and the chefe of the Iewes of Paul. And they besought him

⁸ as longe as he answered for him selfe that he had nether agaynst the lawe of the Iewes nether agaynst the temple nor yet agaynst Cesar offended eny thinge at all.

¹⁰ Then sayd Paul: I stonde at Cesars iudgemet seate where I ought to be iudged. To ye Iewes have I no harme done as thou verely well knowest.