³⁰ And when news was given to me that a secret design was being made against the man, I sent him straight away to you, giving orders to those who are against him to make their statements before you.

¹⁶ To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.

¹⁹ And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.

³⁵ I will give hearing to your cause, he said, when those who are against you have come. And he gave orders for him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.

²⁰ And he said, The Jews are in agreement together to make a request to you for Paul to be taken, on the day after this, into the Sanhedrin, to be questioned in greater detail.

¹¹ Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.

⁵ So, he said, let those who have authority among you go with me, and if there is any wrong in the man, let them make a statement against him.

⁶ And when he had been with them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the day after, he took his place on the judge's seat, and sent for Paul.

⁶ Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,

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⁸ And from whom you will be able, by questioning him yourself, to get knowledge of all the things which we say against him.

¹² And when it was day, the Jews came together and put themselves under an oath that they would take no food or drink till they had put Paul to death.

²⁹ To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.

²⁴ But Saul got knowledge of their design. And they kept watch day and night on the roads out of the town, so that they might put him to death: