Acts 23:29 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁹ I found that he was accused concerning questions of their law but was charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁹ Whom I found to be accused concerning questions of their law; but having nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bands.

Acts 23:29 Cross References

Jeremiah 26:16

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and the prophets, “This man does not deserve the sentence of death, for he has spoken to us in the name of the Lord our God.”

Acts 18:15

but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I do not wish to be a judge of these matters.”

Acts 25:11

Now if I am in the wrong and have committed something for which I deserve to die, I am not trying to escape death, but if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can turn me over to them. I appeal to the emperor.”

Acts 25:25

But I found that he had done nothing deserving death, and when he appealed to his Imperial Majesty, I decided to send him.

Acts 26:31

and as they were leaving they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”

Acts 28:18

When they had examined me, the Romans wanted to release me because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.

Deuteronomy 21:22

“When someone is convicted of a crime punishable by death and is executed and you hang him on a tree,