Acts 26:32

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been made free, if he had not put his cause before Caesar.

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  • Acts 28:18 : 18 Who, when they had put questions to me, were ready to let me go free, because there was no cause of death in me.
  • Acts 25:11-12 : 11 If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar. 12 Then Festus, having had a discussion with the Jews, made answer, You have said, Let my cause come before Caesar; to Caesar you will go.
  • Acts 25:25 : 25 But, in my opinion, there is no cause of death in him, and as he himself has made a request to be judged by Caesar, I have said that I would send him.

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  • Acts 25:8-17
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    8 Then Paul, in his answer to them, said, I have done no wrong against the law of the Jews, or against the Temple, or against Caesar.

    9 But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?

    10 And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.

    11 If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.

    12 Then Festus, having had a discussion with the Jews, made answer, You have said, Let my cause come before Caesar; to Caesar you will go.

    13 Now when some days had gone by, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea and went to see Festus.

    14 And as they were there for some days, Festus gave them Paul's story, saying, There is a certain man here who was put in prison by Felix:

    15 Against whom the chief priests and the rulers of the Jews made a statement when I was at Jerusalem, requesting me to give a decision against him.

    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.

    17 So, when they had come together here, straight away, on the day after, I took my place on the judge's seat and sent for the man.

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    26 For the king has knowledge of these things, to whom I am talking freely; being certain that all this is common knowledge to him; for it has not been done in secret.

    27 King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.

    28 And Agrippa said to Paul, A little more and you will be making me a Christian.

    29 And Paul said, It is my prayer to God that, in little or great measure, not only you, but all those hearing me today might be even as I am, but for these chains.

    30 And the king and the ruler and Bernice and those who were seated with them got up;

    31 And when they had gone away they said to one another, This man has done nothing which might give cause for death or prison.

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    20 And as I had not enough knowledge for the discussion of these things, I made the suggestion to him to go to Jerusalem and be judged there.

    21 But when Paul made a request that he might be judged by Caesar, I gave orders for him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.

    22 And Agrippa said to Festus, I have a desire to give the man a hearing myself. Tomorrow, he said, you may give him a hearing.

    23 So on the day after, when Agrippa and Bernice in great glory had come into the public place of hearing, with the chief of the army and the chief men of the town, at the order of Festus, Paul was sent for.

    24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those who are present here with us, you see this man, about whom all the Jews have made protests to me, at Jerusalem and in this place, saying that it is not right for him to be living any longer.

    25 But, in my opinion, there is no cause of death in him, and as he himself has made a request to be judged by Caesar, I have said that I would send him.

    26 But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing.

    27 For it seems to me against reason to send a prisoner without making clear what there is against him.

  • Acts 26:1-3
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    1 And Agrippa said to Paul, You may put your cause before us. Then Paul, stretching out his hand, made his answer, saying:

    2 In my opinion I am happy, King Agrippa, to be able to give my answer before you today to all these things which the Jews say against me:

    3 The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.

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    16 And when we came into Rome, they let Paul have a house for himself and the armed man who kept watch over him.

    17 Then after three days he sent for the chief men of the Jews: and when they had come together, he said to them, My brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the ways of our fathers, I was given, a prisoner from Jerusalem, into the hands of the Romans.

    18 Who, when they had put questions to me, were ready to let me go free, because there was no cause of death in me.

    19 But when the Jews made protest against it, I had to put my cause into Caesar's hands; not because I have anything to say against my nation.

  • Acts 25:4-6
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    4 But Festus, in answer, said that Paul was being kept in prison at Caesarea, and that in a short time he himself was going there.

    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.

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

    20 Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin,

    21 But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.

  • 19 So, then, King Agrippa, I did not go against the vision from heaven;

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    28 And the chief captain said, I got Roman rights for myself at a great price. And Paul said, But I had them by birth.

    29 Then those who were about to put him to the test went away: and the chief captain was in fear, seeing that he was a Roman, and that he had put chains on him.

    30 But on the day after, desiring to have certain knowledge of what the Jews had to say against him, he made him free, and gave orders for the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin to come together, and he took Paul and put him before them.

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    27 This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be put to death by them, when I came on them with the army and took him out of danger, having knowledge that he was a Roman.

    28 And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin:

    29 Then it became clear to me that it was a question of their law, and that nothing was said against him which might be a reason for prison or death.

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    26 For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him.

    27 But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.

  • 23 And he gave orders to the captain to keep Paul under his control, and to let him have everything he had need of; and not to keep his friends from coming to see him.

  • 12 Hearing this, Pilate had a desire to let him go free, but the Jews said in a loud voice, If you let this man go, you are not Caesar's friend: everyone who makes himself a king goes against Caesar.

  • 4 But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.

  • 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.