And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brethren, I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day.
earnestly.
Acts 23:6 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the …
Acts 6:15 And all that sat in the council, looking steadfastly on him, saw …
Acts 22:5 As also the high priest does bear me witness, and all the estate …
Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursues: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Men.
Acts 22:1 Men, brothers, and fathers, hear you my defense which I make now to you.
I have.
Acts 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void …
1 Corinthians 4:4 For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but …
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …
2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in …
2 Timothy 1:3 I thank God, whom I serve from my forefathers with pure conscience…
Hebrews 13:18 Pray for us: for we trust we have a good conscience, in all things …
1 Peter 3:16 Having a good conscience; that, whereas they speak evil of you, as …
And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
Then said Paul unto him, God shall smite thee, thou whited wall: for sittest thou to judge me after the law, and commandest me to be smitten contrary to the law?
God. God did smite him in a remarkable manner; for about five years after this, after his house had been reduced to ashes, in a tumult raised by his own son, he was besieged and taken in the royal palace; where having attempted in vain to hide himself, he was dragged out and slain.
thou whited.
Matthew 23:27,28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like to …
for.
Leviticus 19:35 You shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in length, in weight, …
Psalm 58:1,2 Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, …
Psalm 82:1,2 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods…
Psalm 94:20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames …
Ecclesiastes 3:16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness …
Amos 5:7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Micah 3:8-11 But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the LORD, and of judgment, …
smitten.
Deuteronomy 25:1,2 If there be a controversy between men, and they come to judgment, …
John 7:51 Does our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he does?
John 18:24 Now Annas had sent him bound to Caiaphas the high priest.
And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God's high priest?
Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.
I wist. Soon after the holding of the first council at Jerusalem, Ananias, son of Nebedenus, was deprived of the high priest's office, for certain acts of violence, and sent to Rome, whence he was afterwards released, and returned to Jerusalem. Between the death of Jonathan, who succeeded him and was murdered by Felix, and the high priesthood of Ismael, who was invested with that office by Agrippa, an interval elapsed in which this dignity was vacant. This was the precise time when Paul was apprehended; and the Sanhedrin being destitute of a president, Ananias undertook to discharge the office. It is probable that Paul was ignorant of this circumstance.
Acts 24:17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.
Thou.
Exodus 22:28 You shall not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of your people.
Ecclesiastes 10:20 Curse not the king, no not in your thought; and curse not the rich …
2 Peter 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, …
Jude 1:8,9 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, …
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
Paul.
Matthew 10:16 Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the middle of wolves: be you …
I am.
Acts 26:5 Which knew me from the beginning, if they would testify, that after …
Philippians 3:5 Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe …
of the hope.
Acts 24:15,21 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that …
Acts 26:6-8 And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of …
Acts 28:20 For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to …
And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.
For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit: but the Pharisees confess both.
And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' part arose, and strove, saying, We find no evil in this man: but if a spirit or an angel hath spoken to him, let us not fight against God.
We.
Acts 25:25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and …
Acts 26:31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, …
1 Samuel 24:17 And he said to David, You are more righteous than I: for you have …
Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be …
Luke 23:4,14,15,22 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no …
if.
Acts 23:8 For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, …
Acts 9:4 And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying to him, Saul, …
Acts 22:7,17,18 And I fell to the ground, and heard a voice saying to me, Saul, Saul, …
Acts 26:14-19 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking …
Acts 27:23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
John 12:29 The people therefore, that stood by, and heard it, said that it thundered: …
let.
Acts 5:39 But if it be of God, you cannot overthrow it; lest haply you be found …
Acts 11:17 For as much then as God gave them the like gift as he did to us, …
1 Corinthians 10:22 Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring him into the castle.
fearing.
Acts 23:27 This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: …
Acts 19:28-31 And when they heard these sayings, they were full of wrath, and cried …
Acts 21:30-36 And all the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they …
Psalm 7:2 Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there …
Psalm 50:22 Now consider this, you that forget God, lest I tear you in pieces, …
Micah 3:3 Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off …
James 1:19 Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to …
James 3:14-18 But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, …
James 4:1,2 From where come wars and fights among you? come they not hence, even …
to take.
Acts 22:24 The chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, and …
And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.
the Lord.
Acts 2:25 For David speaks concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before …
Acts 18:9 Then spoke the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, …
Acts 27:23,24 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and …
Psalm 46:1,2 God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble…
Psalm 109:31 For he shall stand at the right hand of the poor, to save him from …
Isaiah 41:10,14 Fear you not; for I am with you: be not dismayed; for I am your God: …
Isaiah 43:2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through …
Jeremiah 15:19-21 Therefore thus said the LORD, If you return, then will I bring you …
Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatever I have commanded you: …
John 14:18 I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.
2 Corinthians 1:8-10 For we would not, brothers, have you ignorant of our trouble which …
Be.
Acts 27:22,25 And now I exhort you to be of good cheer: for there shall be no loss …
Matthew 9:2 And, behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on …
Matthew 14:27 But straightway Jesus spoke to them, saying, Be of good cheer; it …
John 16:33 These things I have spoken to you, that in me you might have peace. …
for.
Acts 19:21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when …
Acts 20:22 And now, behold, I go bound in the spirit to Jerusalem, not knowing …
Acts 22:18 And saw him saying to me, Make haste, and get you quickly out of …
Acts 28:23-28 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many to him into …
Romans 1:15,16 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that …
Philippians 1:13 So that my bonds in Christ are manifest in all the palace, and in …
2 Timothy 4:17 Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that …
must.
Acts 28:30,31 And Paul dwelled two whole years in his own hired house, and received …
Isaiah 46:10 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the …
John 11:8-10 His disciples say to him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone …
And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound themselves under a curse, saying that they would neither eat nor drink till they had killed Paul.
certain.
Acts 23:21,30 But do not you yield to them: for there lie in wait for him of them …
Acts 25:3 And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, …
Psalm 2:1-3 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing…
Psalm 64:2-6 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection …
Isaiah 8:9,10 Associate yourselves, O you people, and you shall be broken in pieces; …
Jeremiah 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; …
Matthew 26:4 And consulted that they might take Jesus by subtlety, and kill him.
bound.
1 Kings 19:2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah, saying, So let the gods …
2 Kings 6:31 Then he said, God do so and more also to me, if the head of Elisha …
Matthew 27:25 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.
Mark 6:23-26 And he swore to her, Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give it …
under a curse. or, with an oath of execration.
Leviticus 27:29 None devoted, which shall be devoted of men, shall be redeemed; but …
Joshua 6:26 And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before …
Joshua 7:1,15 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: …
Nehemiah 10:29 They joined to their brothers, their nobles, and entered into a curse, …
Matthew 26:74 Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. …
1 Corinthians 16:22 If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maranatha.
Galatians 3:13 Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse …
that. Such execrable vows as these were not unusual among the Jews, who, from their perverted traditions, challenged to themselves a right of punishing without any legal process, those whom they considered transgressors of the law; and in some cases, as in the case of one who had forsaken the law of Moses, they thought they were justified in killing them. They therefore made no scruple of acquainting the chief priests and elders with their conspiracy against the life of Paul, and applying for their connivance and support; who, being chiefly of the sect of the Sadducees, and the apostle's bitterest enemies, were so far from blaming them for it, that they gladly aided and abetted them in this mode of dispatching him, and on its failure they soon afterwards determined upon making a similar attempt. (ch.
Acts 25:2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against …
1 Samuel 14:24,27,28,40-44 And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured …
Psalm 31:13 For I have heard the slander of many: fear was on every side: while …
And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.
And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have bound ourselves under a great curse, that we will eat nothing until we have slain Paul.
Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would inquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.
that he.
Acts 25:3 And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, …
Psalm 21:11 For they intended evil against you: they imagined a mischievous device, …
Psalm 37:32,33 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him…
Proverbs 1:11,12,16 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk …
Proverbs 4:16 For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep …
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: …
Romans 3:14-16 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness…
And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.
Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him.
So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee.
Paul.
Acts 16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises to God: and …
Acts 27:1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered …
Acts 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief …
Genesis 40:14,15 But think on me when it shall be well with you, and show kindness, …
Ephesians 3:1 For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles,
Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk …
Philemon 1:9 Yet for love's sake I rather beseech you, being such an one as Paul …
something.
Luke 7:40 And Jesus answering said to him, Simon, I have somewhat to say to …
Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?
And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would inquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
do not.
Exodus 23:2 You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak …
for.
Acts 23:12-14 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound …
Acts 9:23,24 And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him…
Acts 14:5,6 And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also …
Acts 20:19 Serving the LORD with all humility of mind, and with many tears, …
Acts 25:3 And desired favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, …
2 Corinthians 11:26,32,33 In journeys often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in …
an oath.
Acts 23:14 And they came to the chief priests and elders, and said, We have …
Romans 9:3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers, …
So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
beast.
Nehemiah 2:12 And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told …
Esther 8:12 On one day in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus, namely, on the …
Luke 10:34 And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, …
Felix.
Acts 23:26,33-35 Claudius Lysias to the most excellent governor Felix sends greeting…
Acts 24:3,10,22-27 We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all …
Acts 25:14 And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause …
the governor.
Matthew 27:2 And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him …
Luke 3:1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius …
And he wrote a letter after this manner:
Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
questions.
Acts 23:6-9 But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the …
Acts 18:15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look …
Acts 24:5,6,10-21 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition …
Acts 25:19,20 But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, …
but.
Acts 25:7,8,11,25 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood …
Acts 26:31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, …
And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
it was.
Acts 23:16-24 And when Paul's sister's son heard of their lying in wait, he went …
and gave.
Acts 24:7,8 But the chief captain Lysias came on us, and with great violence …
Acts 25:5,6 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with …
Farewell.
Acts 15:29 That you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and …
2 Corinthians 13:11 Finally, brothers, farewell. Be perfect, be of good comfort, be of …
Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
Who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
he asked.
Acts 25:1 Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended …
Esther 1:1 Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus …
Esther 8:9 Then were the king's scribes called at that time in the third month, …
Daniel 2:49 Then Daniel requested of the king, and he set Shadrach, Meshach, …
Daniel 6:1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, …
Luke 23:6 When Pilate heard of Galilee, he asked whether the man were a Galilaean.
Cilicia.
Acts 15:41 And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
Acts 21:39 But Paul said, I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus, a city in Cilicia, …
I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's judgment hall.
