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Acts 23:28
And when I would have known the cause for which they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
Acts 23:28 · Webster Bible
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 manner:
26 Claudius Lysias, to the most excellent governor Felix, [sendeth] greeting.
27 This man was taken by the Jews, and would have been killed by them: then I came with a body of soldiers, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
28 And when I would have known the cause for which they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
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.
30 And when it was told to me that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent forthwith to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also, to say before thee what [they had] against him. Farewell.
31 Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought [him] by night to Antipatris.
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