'Accusation' in the Bible
But he did not answer even one accusation, so that the governor was quite amazed.
And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.
And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.
Some soldiers also questioned him: “What should we do?”He said to them, “Don’t take money from anyone by force or false accusation; be satisfied with your wages.”
And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.
He also said to the disciples: “There was a rich man who received an accusation that his manager was squandering his possessions.
And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
Then Pilate said to the chief priests and the crowds, "I find no basis for an accusation against this man."
[and] said to them, "You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people, and behold, [when I] examined [him] before you, I found nothing in this man as basis for the accusation which {you are making} against him
So he said to them a third [time], "Why? What wrong has this man done? I found no basis for an accusation {deserving death} in him. Therefore I will punish him [and] release [him]."
His reply to their accusation was, "My Father works unceasingly, and so do I."
Pilate then went out unto them, and said, What accusation bring ye against this man?
Pilate asked, "What is truth?" When he had said this he went back outside to the Jewish leaders and announced, "I find no basis for an accusation against him.
Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, "Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him."
When the chief priests and their officers saw him, they shouted out, "Crucify him! Crucify him!" Pilate said, "You take him and crucify him! Certainly I find no reason for an accusation against him!"
For also we are in danger to be put in accusation for sedition for this affair of to-day, no cause existing in reference to which we shall be able to give a reason for this concourse.
Some of the crowd shouted one accusation against Paul and some another, until, as the uproar made it impossible for the truth to be ascertained with certainty, the Tribune ordered him to be brought into the barracks.
And wanting to know the exact charge which they were making against him, I brought him down to their Council (Sanhedrin, Jewish High Court);
whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;
The Jews also joined in the attack, declaring and insisting that these things were so.
who ought to have been present before you and to make accusation, if they should have anything against me.
I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met his accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the accusation.
Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
who, [when they] had examined me, were wanting to release [me], because there was no basis for an accusation [worthy] of death with me.
Because the Jews objected, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar; it was not as though I had any accusation against my nation.
Who can bring an accusation against God’s elect?God is the One who justifies.
And He will also confirm you to the end [keeping you strong and free of any accusation, so that you will be] blameless and beyond reproach in the day [of the return] of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This will be the third time I am coming to you. "Every accusation must be verified by two or three witnesses."
Now an overseer must be blameless and beyond reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.
if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --
Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.
Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.
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