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Acts 28:19

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But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.

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Acts 28:19 in other translations

But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Cæsar; not that I had aught whereof to accuse my nation.

Acts 28:19 · American Standard Version

Acts 28:19 in context

  1. 17After three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, “I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
  2. 18who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
  3. 19But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
  4. 20For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”
  5. 21They said to him, “We neither received letters from Judea concerning you, nor did any of the brothers come here and report or speak any evil of you.