Acts 23:29

²⁷ This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.

²⁸ And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:

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 me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway 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.

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: I found that the accusation involved questions about their own law, but there was no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.
KJV: 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.
WEB: I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.
ASV: 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.
DARBY: whom I found to be accused of questions of their law, but to have no charge laid against him [making him] worthy of death or of bonds.
BLB: whom I found being accused concerning questions of their law, but having no accusation worthy of death or of chains.

ÅB: Jeg fant da at de førte klage over ham for noen spørsmål i deres lov, men at det ikke var noe klagemål imot ham som gjorde ham skyldig til død eller fengsel.
OTB: Jeg oppdaget at han ble anklaget over spørsmål om deres lov, men hadde ingen anklage som fortjente død eller fengsel.
B1930: Jeg fant da at de førte klage over ham for nogen spørsmål i deres lov, men at det ikke var noget klagemål imot ham som gjorde ham skyldig til død eller fengsel.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Acts 26:31
And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
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Acts 25:25
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
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Acts 18:15
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.
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Acts 25:11
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cæsar.
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Acts 25:19–20
But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
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Acts 25:7–8
And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
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Acts 28:18
Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
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Acts 23:6–9
But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees, and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Men and brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee: of the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.
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