Acts 25:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵ So, he said, “Let your leaders go down with me and if there is anything [found] wrong with the man, let them bring their charges against him [at that time].”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ So, said he, let those who are in a position of authority and are influential among you go down with me, and if there is anything amiss or criminal about the man, let them so charge him.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Let them therefore, saith he, that are of power among you go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse him.

Common English Bible

⁵ “Some of your leaders can come down with me,” he said. “If he’s done anything wrong, they can bring charges against him.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ "Therefore," he said, "let those among you who are able, descend at the same time, and if there is any guilt in the man, they may accuse him."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Let them, therefore, saith he, among you that are able, go down with me, and accuse him, if there be any crime in the man.

Acts 25:5 Cross References

Acts 18:14

When Paul was about to respond [to this charge], Gallio said to the Jews, “[My] Jewish [constituents], if it were a simple case of wrongdoing or some serious crime, there would be good reason for me to consider your charge [against this man].

Acts 23:30

And when I was told that there was a plot against the man, I sent him to you immediately, also ordering his accusers to present their case against him in front of you.”

Acts 24:8

[and] you will be able to determine the nature of our accusations against him by questioning him yourself.”

Acts 25:16

I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to turn over any person [for sentencing] before he is faced by his accusers and has had the opportunity to defend himself against the charges made against him.

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 25:4

Festus answered that [since] Paul was being held in custody in Caesarea, and [since] he himself was soon going there [i.e., he could see Paul at Caesarea at that time].

Acts 25:6

After staying not more than eight or ten [more] days [there in Jerusalem], Festus went down to Caesarea and the following day he ordered Paul to appear before him as he sat in his court of justice.