Acts 23:19

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The commanding officer took him by the hand, withdrew privately, and asked,“What is it that you want to report to me?”

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  • Neh 2:4 : 4 The king responded,“What is it you are seeking?” Then I quickly prayed to the God of heaven
  • Esth 5:3 : 3 The king said to her,“What is on your mind, Queen Esther? What is your request? Even as much as half the kingdom will be given to you!”
  • Esth 7:2 : 2 On the second day of the banquet of wine the king asked Esther,“What is your request, Queen Esther? It shall be granted to you. And what is your petition? Ask up to half the kingdom, and it shall be done!”
  • Esth 9:12 : 12 Then the king said to Queen Esther,“In Susa the citadel the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman! What then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces? What is your request? It shall be given to you. What other petition do you have? It shall be done.”
  • Jer 31:32 : 32 It will not be like the old covenant that I made with their ancestors when I delivered them from Egypt. For they violated that covenant, even though I was like a faithful husband to them,” says the LORD.
  • Mark 8:23 : 23 He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes and asked,“Do you see anything?”
  • Mark 9:27 : 27 But Jesus gently took his hand and raised him to his feet, and he stood up.
  • Mark 10:51 : 51 Then Jesus said to him,“What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied,“Rabbi, let me see again.”

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  • Acts 23:15-18
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    15So now you and the council request the commanding officer to bring him down to you, as if you were going to determine his case by conducting a more thorough inquiry. We are ready to kill him before he comes near this place.”

    16But when the son of Paul’s sister heard about the ambush, he came and entered the barracks and told Paul.

    17Paul called one of the centurions and said,“Take this young man to the commanding officer, for he has something to report to him.”

    18So the centurion took him and brought him to the commanding officer and said,“The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this young man to you because he has something to tell you.”

  • Acts 23:20-23
    4 verses
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    20He replied,“The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul down to the council tomorrow, as if they were going to inquire more thoroughly about him.

    21So do not let them persuade you to do this, because more than forty of them are lying in ambush for him. They have bound themselves with an oath not to eat or drink anything until they have killed him, and now they are ready, waiting for you to agree to their request.”

    22Then the commanding officer sent the young man away, directing him,“Tell no one that you have reported these things to me.”

    23Then he summoned two of the centurions and said,“Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o’clock tonight,

  • Acts 21:31-34
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    31While they were trying to kill him, a report was sent up to the commanding officer of the cohort that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

    32He immediately took soldiers and centurions and ran down to the crowd. When they saw the commanding officer and the soldiers, they stopped beating Paul.

    33Then the commanding officer came up and arrested him and ordered him to be tied up with two chains; he then asked who he was and what he had done.

    34But some in the crowd shouted one thing, and others something else, and when the commanding officer was unable to find out the truth because of the disturbance, he ordered Paul to be brought into the barracks.

  • Acts 22:24-27
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    24the commanding officer ordered Paul to be brought back into the barracks. He told them to interrogate Paul by beating him with a lash so that he could find out the reason the crowd was shouting at Paul in this way.

    25When they had stretched him out for the lash, Paul said to the centurion standing nearby,“Is it legal for you to lash a man who is a Roman citizen without a proper trial?”

    26When the centurion heard this, he went to the commanding officer and reported it, saying,“What are you about to do? For this man is a Roman citizen.”

    27So the commanding officer came and asked Paul,“Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?” He replied,“Yes.”

  • Acts 21:37
    77%

    37As Paul was about to be brought into the barracks, he said to the commanding officer,“May I say something to you?” The officer replied,“Do you know Greek?

  • Acts 22:29-30
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    76%

    29Then those who were about to interrogate him stayed away from him, and the commanding officer was frightened when he realized that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had had him tied up.

    30Paul Before the Sanhedrin The next day, because the commanding officer wanted to know the true reason Paul was being accused by the Jews, he released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole council to assemble. He then brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

  • Acts 23:10-11
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    76%

    10When the argument became so great the commanding officer feared that they would tear Paul to pieces, he ordered the detachment to go down, take him away from them by force, and bring him into the barracks.

    11The following night the Lord stood near Paul and said,“Have courage, for just as you have testified about me in Jerusalem, so you must also testify in Rome.”

  • Acts 23:27-31
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    75%

    27This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him, when I came up with the detachment and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen.

    28Since I wanted to know what charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down to their council.

    29I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment.

    30When I was informed there would be a plot against this man, I sent him to you at once, also ordering his accusers to state their charges against him before you.

    31So the soldiers, in accordance with their orders, took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night.

  • Acts 25:15
    74%

    15When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.

  • Acts 28:16-17
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    74%

    16When we entered Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, with the soldier who was guarding him.

    17Paul Addresses the Jewish Community in Rome After three days Paul called the local Jewish leaders together. When they had assembled, he said to them,“Brothers, although I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our ancestors, from Jerusalem I was handed over as a prisoner to the Romans.

  • Acts 25:2
    74%

    2So the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought formal charges against Paul to him.

  • Acts 24:22-23
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    22Then Felix, who understood the facts concerning the Way more accurately, adjourned their hearing, saying,“When Lysias the commanding officer comes down, I will decide your case.”

    23He ordered the centurion to guard Paul, but to let him have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from meeting his needs.

  • Acts 17:19
    72%

    19So they took Paul and brought him to the Areopagus, saying,“May we know what this new teaching is that you are proclaiming?

  • Acts 25:20-21
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    20Because I was at a loss how I could investigate these matters, I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.

    21But when Paul appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor, I ordered him to be kept under guard until I could send him to Caesar.”

  • Acts 25:23
    71%

    23Paul Before King Agrippa and Bernice So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience hall, along with the senior military officers and the prominent men of the city. When Festus gave the order, Paul was brought in.

  • Acts 24:8
    71%

    8When you examine him yourself, you will be able to learn from him about all these things we are accusing him of doing.”

  • Acts 21:40
    71%

    40When the commanding officer had given him permission, Paul stood on the steps and gestured to the people with his hand. When they had become silent, he addressed them in Aramaic,

  • Acts 23:33-34
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    33When the horsemen came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor, they also presented Paul to him.

    34When the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from. When he learned that he was from Cilicia,

  • Acts 25:6
    71%

    6After Festus had stayed not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought.

  • Acts 25:17
    71%

    17So after they came back here with me, I did not postpone the case, but the next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought.

  • Acts 26:30-31
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    30So the king got up, and with him the governor and Bernice and those sitting with them,

    31and as they were leaving they said to one another,“This man is not doing anything deserving death or imprisonment.”

  • Acts 16:36-37
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    36The jailer reported these words to Paul, saying,“The magistrates have sent orders to release you. So come out now and go in peace.”

    37But Paul said to the police officers,“They had us beaten in public without a proper trial– even though we are Roman citizens– and they threw us in prison. And now they want to send us away secretly? Absolutely not! They themselves must come and escort us out!”

  • Acts 21:19
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    19When Paul had greeted them, he began to explain in detail what God had done among the Gentiles through his ministry.

  • Acts 19:31
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    31Even some of the provincial authorities who were his friends sent a message to him, urging him not to venture into the theater.

  • Acts 21:29
    69%

    29(For they had seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him previously, and they assumed Paul had brought him into the inner temple courts.)