Acts 25:8

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Summary

While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.

Neither

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Neither

Paul replied, "I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, where I should be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.

They brought forward false witnesses who said, "This man does not stop saying things against this holy place and the law.

Paul looked directly at the council and said, "Brothers, I have lived my life with a clear conscience before God to this day."

He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we arrested him.

After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them, "Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.

for I really was kidnapped from the land of the Hebrews and I have done nothing wrong here for which they should put me in a dungeon."

Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "What crime have I committed against you, or the officials who serve you, or the people of Judah? What have I done to make you people throw me into prison?

My God sent his angel and closed the lions' mouths so that they have not harmed me, because I was found to be innocent before him. Nor have I done any harm to you, O king."

For our reason for confidence is this: the testimony of our conscience, that with pure motives and sincerity which are from God -- not by human wisdom but by the grace of God -- we conducted ourselves in the world, and all the more toward you.

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Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, "What crime have I committed against you, or the officials who serve you, or the people of Judah? What have I done to make you people throw me into prison?

saying, "This man is persuading people to worship God in a way contrary to the law!"

They did not find me arguing with anyone or stirring up a crowd in the temple courts or in the synagogues or throughout the city,

When they had heard my case, they wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.