Maria Esther Torres
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 25:16 ESV
I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up anyone before the accused met the accusers face to face and had opportunity to make his defense concerning the charge laid against him.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 25:10 ESV
But Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you yourself know very well.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 25:9 ESV
But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Do you wish to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried on these charges before me?"
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 25:8 ESV
Paul argued in his defense, "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I committed any offense."
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 25:7 ESV
When he had arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him that they could not prove.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 25:2 ESV
And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews laid out their case against Paul, and they urged him,
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 25:3 ESV
asking as a favor against Paul that he summon him to Jerusalem—because they were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:27 ESV
When two years had elapsed, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus. And desiring to do the Jews a favor, Felix left Paul in prison.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:26 ESV
At the same time he hoped that money would be given him by Paul. So he sent for him often and conversed with him.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:24 ESV
After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:23 ESV
Then he gave orders to the centurion that he should be kept in custody but have some liberty, and that none of his friends should be prevented from attending to his needs.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:21 ESV
other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: 'It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.'"
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:17-18 ESV
Now after several years I came to bring alms to my nation and to present offerings.While I was doing this, they found me purified in the temple, without any crowd or tumult. But some Jews from Asia—
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:16 ESV
So I always take pains to have a clear conscience toward both God and man.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:15 ESV
having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:13 ESV
Neither can they prove to you what they now bring up against me.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:14 ESV
But this I confess to you, that according to the Way, which they call a sect, I worship the God of our fathers, believing everything laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets,
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:10 ESV
And when the governor had nodded to him to speak, Paul replied: "Knowing that for many years you have been a judge over this nation, I cheerfully make my defense.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:9 ESV
The Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that all these things were so.
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Maria Esther Torres
highlighted Acts 24:8 ESV
By examining him yourself you will be able to find out from him about everything of which we accuse him."
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