Acts 23:29 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁹ I found out that he was being accused over questions regarding their law, but that they had no charges against him deserving of the death penalty, or [even] of being kept in prison.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁹ whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁹ [Where] I found that he was charged in regard to questions of their own law, but he was accused of nothing that would call for death or [even] for imprisonment.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁹ whom I found to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

Common English Bible

²⁹ I discovered that they were accusing him about questions related to their Law. I found no charge deserving of death or imprisonment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁹ And I discovered him to be accused about questions of their law. Yet truly, nothing deserving of death or imprisonment was within the accusation.

Acts 23:29 Cross References

Acts 18:15

But if it is only a dispute over words, titles and your [religious] law, tend to it yourselves; I refuse to pass judgment on such [trivial] matters.”

Acts 25:11

If then I am a criminal and have committed any crime that deserves the death penalty, I will not try to avoid being put to death. But if none of the charges I have been accused of are true, [then] no one has the right to turn me over [to the authorities]. I make my appeal to Caesar.”

Acts 25:25

but I found that he had committed nothing which deserved the death [penalty]. And since he himself appealed [his case] to the Emperor, I decided to send him [to Rome].

Acts 26:31

and when they left [the room] they conferred with one another, saying, “This man is not doing anything deserving of the death penalty or [even] imprisonment.”

Acts 28:18

After questioning me, they wanted to release me because they could not find any grounds for sentencing me to death.