Acts 24:27

Coverdale Bible (1535)

But after two yeares came Portius Festus in to felix rowme. Yet Felix wyllinge to shewe the Iewes a pleasure, left Paul bounde.

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  • Acts 25:9 : 9 But Festus wyllinge to shewe the Iewes a pleasure, answered Paul, and sayde: Wilt thou go vp to Ierusalem, and there be iudged off these thinges before me?
  • Acts 25:14 : 14 And whan they had taried there many dayes, Festus rehearsed Pauls cause vnto the kynge, and sayde: There is a man left bounde of Felix,
  • Acts 12:3 : 3 And whan he sawe that it pleased the Iewes, he proceaded farther to take Peter also. But it was Easter.
  • Acts 25:1 : 1 Now whan Festus was come in to the countre, ouer thre dayes he wente vp from Cesarea to Ierusalem.
  • Mark 15:15 : 15 So Pylate thought to satisfie the people, and gaue Barrabas lowse vnto them, and delyuered the Iesus, to be scourgd & crucified.
  • Acts 26:32 : 32 But Agrippa sayde vnto Festus: This man mighte haue bene lowsed, yf he had not appealed vnto the Emperoure.
  • Acts 28:30 : 30 But Paul abode two whole yeares in his owne hyred dwellinge, & receaued all the yt came in vnto hi,
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 Preach I men now or God? Or go I aboute to please men? Yf I shulde yet please men, I were not the seruaunt of Christ.
  • Acts 26:24-25 : 24 Whan he thus answered for himselfe, Festus sayde with a loude voyce: Paul, thou art besydes thy selfe, moch lernynge maketh ye madd. 25 But Paul sayde: I am not madd (most deare Festus) but speake the wordes of trueth and sobernesse:
  • Luke 23:24-25 : 24 And Pilate gaue sentence, that it shulde be as they requyred, 25 and let lowse vnto the, him, that for insurreccio and murthur was cast in to preson, whom they desyred, but gaue Iesus ouer vnto their wyll.
  • Exod 23:2 : 2 Thou shalt not folowe the multitude vnto euell, ner answere at the lawe that thou woldest (to folowe the multitude) turne a syde from the right.
  • Prov 29:25 : 25 He that feareth men, shal haue a fall: but who so putteth his trust in the LORDE, shal come to honor.
  • Acts 25:4 : 4 Then answered Festus, that Paul shulde be kepte at Cesarea, but that he himselfe wolde shortly go thither agayne.
  • Acts 23:35 : 35 he sayde: I wil heare the, whan thine accusers are come also. And he commaunded him to be kepte in Herodes iudgment house.

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  • Acts 25:12-15
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    85%

    12Then spake Festus with the Councell, and answered: Thou hast appealed vnto the Emperoure, to the Emperoure shalt thou go.

    13After certayne dayes came kynge Agrippa and Bernice to Cesarea to welcome Festus.

    14And whan they had taried there many dayes, Festus rehearsed Pauls cause vnto the kynge, and sayde: There is a man left bounde of Felix,

    15for whose cause the hye prestes and Elders of the Iewes appeared before me whan I was at Ierusalem, and desyred a sentence agaynst him.

  • Acts 24:22-26
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    22Whan Felix herde this, he dyfferred the (for he knewe very well of that waye) and sayde: Whan Lysias the vpper captayne commeth downe, I wyl knowe ye vttemost of youre matter

    23But he commaunded the vndercaptayne to kepe Paul, and to let him haue rest, and that he shulde forbydde none of his acquauntauce to mynister vnto him, or to come vnto him.

    24But after certayne dayes came Felix wt his wife Drusilla, which was a Iewesse, and called for Paul, and herde him of the faith in Christ.

    25Howbeit whan Paul spake off righteousnesse, and off chastite and off the iudgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered: Go thy waye for this tyme. Whan I haue a conuenyent tyme, I wil sende for the.

    26He hoped also, that money shulde haue bene geuen him of Paul, therfore called he oft for him, and commened with him.

  • Acts 25:1-6
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    1Now whan Festus was come in to the countre, ouer thre dayes he wente vp from Cesarea to Ierusalem.

    2Then appeared the hye prestes and the chefe of the Iewes before him agaynst Paul, and intreated him,

    3and desyred fauoure agaynst him, that he wolde sende for him to Ierusalem, and layed wayte for him, that they might slaye him by the waye.

    4Then answered Festus, that Paul shulde be kepte at Cesarea, but that he himselfe wolde shortly go thither agayne.

    5Let them therfore (sayde he) which are able amonge you, come downe with vs to accuse the man, yf there be ought in him.

    6Whan he had taried amonge them more then ten dayes, he wente downe to Cesarea. And on the nexte daye he sat downe on the iudgment seate, and commaunded Paul to be broughte.

  • Acts 25:9
    78%

    9But Festus wyllinge to shewe the Iewes a pleasure, answered Paul, and sayde: Wilt thou go vp to Ierusalem, and there be iudged off these thinges before me?

  • Acts 25:20-27
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    20Howbeit because I vnderstode not the question, I axed hi, whether he wolde go to Ierusale, and there be iudged of these matters.

    21But wha Paul had appealed, that he might be kepte vnto the knowlege of the Emperoure, I comaunded him to be kepte, tyll I mighte sende him to the Emperoure.

    22Agrippa sayde vnto Festus: I wolde fayne heare the man also. He sayde: Tomorow shalt thou heare him.

    23And on the nexte daye came Agrippa & Bernice with greate pompe, and wete in to the comon hall with the captaynes & chefe me of the cite. And at Festus comaundement, Paul was brought forth.

    24And Festus sayde: Kynge Agrippa, and all ye men which are here with vs, ye se this man, aboute whom all the multitude of the Iewes haue entreated me, both at Ierusale and here also, and cried, that he ought not to lyue eny lenger.

    25But whan I perceaued that he had done nothinge worthy off death, and that he himselfe also had appealed vnto the Emperoure, I determyned to sende him,

    26of who I haue no certayne thinge to wryte vnto my lorde. Therfore haue I caused hi to be broughte forth before you, specially before the (O kynge Agrippa) that after examinacion had, I might haue somwhat to wryte.

    27For me thynke it an vnreasonable thinge to sende a presoner, and not to shewe the causes which are layed agaynst him.

  • Acts 24:1-2
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    1After fyue dayes the hye prest Ananias came downe with the Elders, and wt the Oratour Tertullus, which appeared before the Debyte agaynst Paul.

    2Whan Paul was called forth, Tertullus begane to accuse him, and sayde: Seynge that we lyue in greate peace by the meanes of ye, and that many good thinges are done for this people thorow thy prouydence

  • Acts 24:4
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    4Notwithstondinge yt I be nomore tedious vnto the, I praye the, that of thy curtesy thou woldest heare vs a few wordes.

  • Acts 23:23-27
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    23And he called vnto him two vndercaptaynes, and sayde: Make redye two hundreth soudyers, that they maye go to Cesarea, and thre score and ten horsmen, and two hundreth speare men at the thirde houre of the nighte,

    24and delyuer the beastes, that they maye set Paul theron, and brynge him safe vnto Felix the debyte,

    25and he wrote a letter on this maner:

    26Claudius Lysias, vnto the most mightie Debyte Felix, gretynge.

    27The Iewes had taken this man, and wolde haue slayne him, then came I with soudyers, and rescued him, and perceaued that he is a Romayne.

  • Acts 22:29-30
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    72%

    29The straight waye departed from him, they that shulde haue examyned him. And ye chefe captayne was afrayed, whan he knewe that he was a Romayne, and because he had bounde him.

    30On the nexte daye wolde he knowe the certentye wherfore he was accused of the Iewes, and he lowsed him from the bondes, and commaunded the hye prestes and all their councell to come together, and broughte Paul forth, and set him amonge them.

  • Acts 28:30
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    30But Paul abode two whole yeares in his owne hyred dwellinge, & receaued all the yt came in vnto hi,

  • Acts 26:30-32
    3 verses
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    30And whan he had spoken this, the kynge rose vp, and the Debyte, and Bernice, and they that sat with them,

    31and wente asyde, and talked together, and sayde: This man hath done nothinge that is worthy of death or of bondes.

    32But Agrippa sayde vnto Festus: This man mighte haue bene lowsed, yf he had not appealed vnto the Emperoure.

  • Acts 23:30-32
    3 verses
    71%

    30And whan it was shewed me, that certayne Iewes layed wayte for him, I sent him straight waye vnto the, and commaunded the accusers also, that loke what they had agaynst him, they shulde tell the same before the. Fare well.

    31The soudyers (as it was commaunded them) toke Paul, and broughte him to Antipatras.

    32But on the nexte daye, they lefte ye horse men to go with him, and turned agayne to the castell.

  • Acts 28:16-17
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    16But wha we came to Rome, the vndercaptayne delyuered the presoners to ye chefe captayne. As for Paul, he had leue to byde alone with one soudyer that kepte him.

    17After thre dayes it fortuned, yt Paul called ye chefe of ye Iewes together. And wha they were come, he sayde vnto the: Ye me & brethre I haue comytted nothinge agaynst or people, ner agaynst ye lawes of ye fathers, yet was I boude, delyuered out of Ierusale in to ye Romaynes hades:

  • Acts 24:10
    70%

    10But Paul (whan the debyte had beckened vnto him, that he shulde speake) answered: Seynge I knowe that thou hast bene iudge now many yeares amonge this people, I wil not be afrayed to answere for my selfe,

  • Acts 25:17
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    17Wha they were come hither together, I made no delaye, but sat the nexte daye in iudgment, and commaunded the man to be broughte forth.

  • Acts 27:3
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    3and on the nexte daye we came vnto Sidon. And Iulius intreated Paul curteously, and gaue him liberty to go to his frendes, and to refresh himselfe.

  • Acts 23:20
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    20He sayde: The Iewes are agreed together, to desyre the, to let Paul be broughte forth tomorow before the councell, as though they wolde yet heare him better.

  • Acts 26:24
    68%

    24Whan he thus answered for himselfe, Festus sayde with a loude voyce: Paul, thou art besydes thy selfe, moch lernynge maketh ye madd.

  • Acts 27:1
    68%

    1Whan it was concluded that we shulde sayle in to Italy, they delyuered Paul and certayne other presoners to the vndercaptayne named Iulius, of the Emperours soudyers.

  • Acts 18:11
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    11He contynued there a yeare and sixe monethes, and taught them the worde of God.