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Acts 23:28
And desiring to know the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him down unto their council:
Acts 23:28 · American Standard Version
Acts 23:28 in other translations
And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
and since I wanted to understand their charges against him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin.
Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.
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In context
25 And he wrote a letter after this form:
26 Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix, greeting.
27 This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be slain of them, when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.
28 And desiring to know the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him down unto their council:
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.
30 And when it was shown to me that there would be a plot against the man, I sent him to thee forthwith, charging his accusers also to speak against him before thee.
31 So the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul and brought him by night to Antipatris.
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