Quotes About Accusation

The commander came up and arrested Paul, ordering that he be bound with two chains. Then he asked who he was and what he had done.

The next day the commander, wanting to learn the real reason Paul was accused by the Jews, released him and ordered the chief priests and the whole Sanhedrin to assemble. Then he brought Paul down and had him stand before them.

He answered, “The Jews have agreed to ask you to bring Paul to the Sanhedrin tomorrow on the pretext of acquiring more information about him.

and since I wanted to understand their charges against him, I brought him down to their Sanhedrin.

I found that the accusation involved questions about their own law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.

he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herodís Praetorium.

Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus, who presented to the governor their case against Paul.

and he even tried to desecrate the temple; so we seized him.

The Jews concurred, asserting that these charges were true.

Yet my accusers did not find me debating with anyone in the temple or riling up a crowd in the synagogues or in the city.

Nor can they prove to you any of their charges against me.

At the time they found me in the temple, I was ceremonially clean and was not inciting a crowd or an uproar. But there are some Jews from the province of Asia

who ought to appear before you and bring charges, if they have anything against me.

Otherwise, let these men state for themselves any crime they found in me when I stood before the Sanhedrin,

where the chief priests and Jewish leaders presented their case against Paul. They urged Festus

So if this man has done anything wrong, let some of your leaders come down with me and accuse him there.”

When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they could not prove.

Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to stand trial before me on these charges?”

Since they were staying several days, Festus laid out Paulís case before the king: “There is a certain man whom Felix left in prison.

While I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews presented their case and requested a judgment against him.

I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.

But when his accusers rose to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected.

Since I was at a loss as to how to investigate these matters, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.