Acts 22:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' --

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  • Acts 7:2 : 2 and he said, `Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: The God of the glory did appear to our father Abraham, being in Mesopotamia, before his dwelling in Haran,
  • Acts 13:26 : 26 `Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,
  • Acts 19:33 : 33 and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander -- the Jews thrusting him forward -- and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defence to the populace,
  • Acts 23:1 : 1 And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'
  • Acts 23:6 : 6 and Paul having known that the one part are Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, cried out in the sanhedrim, `Men, brethren, I am a Pharisee -- son of a Pharisee -- concerning hope and rising again of dead men I am judged.'
  • Acts 24:10 : 10 And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing `that' for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;
  • Acts 25:8 : 8 he making defence -- `Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar -- did I commit any sin.'
  • Acts 25:16 : 16 unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against `him'.
  • Acts 26:1-2 : 1 And Agrippa said unto Paul, `It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence: 2 `Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,
  • Acts 26:24 : 24 And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;'
  • Acts 28:17 : 17 And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;
  • Rom 2:15 : 15 who do shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also witnessing with them, and between one another the thoughts accusing or else defending,
  • 1 Cor 9:3 : 3 My defence to those who examine me in this;
  • 2 Cor 7:11 : 11 for, lo, this same thing -- your being made sorry toward God -- how much diligence it doth work in you! but defence, but displeasure, but fear, but longing desire, but zeal, but revenge; in every thing ye did approve yourselves to be pure in the matter.
  • 2 Cor 12:19 : 19 Again, think ye that to you we are making defence? before God in Christ do we speak; and the all things, beloved, `are' for your up-building,
  • Phil 1:7 : 7 according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and `in' the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.
  • Phil 1:17 : 17 and the other out of love, having known that for defence of the good news I am set:
  • 2 Tim 4:16 : 16 in my first defence no one stood with me, but all forsook me, (may it not be reckoned to them!)
  • 1 Pet 3:15 : 15 and the Lord God sanctify in your hearts. And `be' ready always for defence to every one who is asking of you an account concerning the hope that `is' in you, with meekness and fear;
  • Luke 12:11 : 11 `And when they bring you before the synagogues, and the rulers, and the authorities, be not anxious how or what ye may reply, or what ye may say,
  • Luke 21:14 : 14 `Settle, then, to your hearts, not to meditate beforehand to reply,

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    2and they having heard that in the Hebrew dialect he was speaking to them, gave the more silence, and he saith, --

    3`I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, having been born in Tarsus of Cilicia, and brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, having been taught according to the exactitude of a law of the fathers, being zealous of God, as all ye are to-day.

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    19whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me,

    20or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim,

    21except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.'

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    35and said unto them, `Men, Israelites, take heed to yourselves about these men, what ye are about to do,

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    15and after the reading of the law and of the prophets, the chief men of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, `Men, brethren, if there be a word in you of exhortation unto the people -- say on.'

    16And Paul having risen, and having beckoned with the hand, said, `Men, Israelites, and those fearing God, hearken:

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    15about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,

    16unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against `him'.

    17`They, therefore, having come together -- I, making no delay, on the succeeding `day' having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,

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    14and Peter having stood up with the eleven, lifted up his voice and declared to them, `Men, Jews! and all those dwelling in Jerusalem, let this be known to you, and harken to my sayings,

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    17And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;

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    3My defence to those who examine me in this;

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    1And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'

  • Acts 26:1-4
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    1And Agrippa said unto Paul, `It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;' then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence:

    2`Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,

    3especially knowing thee to be acquainted with all things -- both customs and questions -- among Jews; wherefore, I beseech thee, patiently to hear me.

    4`The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth -- which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem -- know do all the Jews,

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    15because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard;

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    13and after they are silent, James answered, saying, `Men, brethren, hearken to me;

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    8he making defence -- `Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar -- did I commit any sin.'

  • Acts 24:10
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    10And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing `that' for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

  • Acts 28:19
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    19and the Jews having spoken against `it', I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar -- not as having anything to accuse my nation of;

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    6and now for the hope of the promise made to the fathers by God, I have stood judged,

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    13nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me.

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    26`Men, brethren, sons of the race of Abraham, and those among you fearing God, to you was the word of this salvation sent,

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    27and having brought them, they set `them' in the sanhedrim, and the chief priest questioned them,

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    33and out of the multitude they put forward Alexander -- the Jews thrusting him forward -- and Alexander having beckoned with the hand, wished to make defence to the populace,

  • Acts 23:35
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    35`I will hear thee -- said he -- when thine accusers also may have come;' he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

  • Acts 21:39-40
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    39And Paul said, `I, indeed, am a man, a Jew, of Tarsus of Cilicia, of no mean city a citizen; and I beseech thee, suffer me to speak unto the people.'

    40And he having given him leave, Paul having stood upon the stairs, did beckon with the hand to the people, and there having been a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew dialect, saying:

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    21And they said unto him, `We did neither receive letters concerning thee from Judea, nor did any one who came of the brethren declare or speak any evil concerning thee,

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    22And they were hearing him unto this word, and they lifted up their voice, saying, `Away from the earth with such an one; for it is not fit for him to live.'

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    19having also taken him, unto the Areopagus they brought `him', saying, `Are we able to know what `is' this new teaching that is spoken by thee,

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    29whom I found accused concerning questions of their law, and having no accusation worthy of death or bonds;

    30and a plot having been intimated to me against this man -- about to be of the Jews -- at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.'

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    13`The God of Abraham, and of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, did glorify His child Jesus, whom ye delivered up, and denied him in the presence of Pilate, he having given judgment to release `him',

  • Acts 22:18-19
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    18and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me;

    19and I said, Lord, they -- they know that I was imprisoning and was scourging in every synagogue those believing on thee;

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    11for if indeed I am unrighteous, and anything worthy of death have done, I deprecate not to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favour of me to them; to Caesar I appeal!'

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    21because of these things the Jews -- having caught me in the temple -- were endeavouring to kill `me'.

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    15and saying, `Men, why these things do ye? and we are men like-affected with you, proclaiming good news to you, from these vanities to turn unto the living God, who made the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all the things in them;

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    8having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;'

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    24And Festus said, `King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;

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    30And, he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them,

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    40for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there being no occasion by which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse;'

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    22what then is it? certainly the multitude it behoveth to come together, for they will hear that thou hast come.