So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.”
Acts 18:15 - Revised Standard Version but since it is a matter of questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I refuse to be a judge of these things.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 but if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition But since it is merely a question [of doctrine] about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I decline to be a judge of such matters and I have no intention of trying such cases. American Standard Version (1901) but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters. Common English Bible However, since these are squabbles about a message, names, and your own Law, deal with them yourselves. I have no desire to sit in judgment over such things.” Catholic Public Domain Version Yet if truly these are questions about a word and names and your law, you should see to it yourselves. I will not be the judge of such things." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But if they be questions of word and names, and of your law, look you to it: I will not be judge of such things. |
So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.”
saying, “I have sinned in betraying innocent blood.” They said, “What is that to us? See to it yourself.”
Pilate said to them, “Take him yourselves and judge him by your own law.” The Jews said to him, “It is not lawful for us to put any man to death.”
saying, “This man is persuading men to worship God contrary to the law.”
I found that he was accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.
If then I am a wrongdoer, and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death; but if there is nothing in their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
but they had certain points of dispute with him about their own superstition and about one Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive.
because you are especially familiar with all customs and controversies of the Jews; therefore I beg you to listen to me patiently.
nor to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than the divine training that is in faith;
he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing; he has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,
Have nothing to do with stupid, senseless controversies; you know that they breed quarrels.
But avoid stupid controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels over the law, for they are unprofitable and futile.