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Acts 28:18 KJV
Acts · chapter 28 · verse 18
Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.Acts 28:18 · King James Version
Acts 28:18 in context
16And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.
17And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
18Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
19But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
20For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you, and to speak with you: because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- examinedanakrinōexamine or judge, to investigate, examine, enquire into, scrutinise, sift, question…G350 →
- causeaitiacause, reason, cause for which one is worthy of punishment, crime, charge of crime…G156 →
- deaththanatosthe death of the body, that separation of the soul and the body by which the life on…G2288 →
- goapolyōto set free, to let go, dismiss, , a petitioner to whom liberty to depart is given by a…G630 →
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Paul, with a great deal of expense and hazard, is brought a prisoner to Rome, and when he has come nobody appears to prosecute him or lay any thing to his charge; but he must call his own cause; and here he represents it to the chief of the Jews at Rome.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-22