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Acts 25:3
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Paul Appeals to Caesar

1 Now when Festus had come to the province, after three days he went up from aCaesarea to Jerusalem.  
2 aThen the1 high priest and the chief men of the Jews informed him against Paul; and they petitioned him,  
3 asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem—awhile they lay in ambush along the road to kill him.  
4 But Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was going there shortly.
5 “Therefore,” he said, “let those who have authority among you go down with me and accuse this man, to see aif there is any fault in him.”  
6 And when he had remained among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day, sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought.
7 When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood about aand laid many serious complaints against Paul, which they could not prove,  
8 while he answered for himself, a“Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything at all.”  
9 But Festus, awanting to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, b“Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and there be judged before me concerning these things?”  
10 So Paul said, “I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as you very well know.
11 aFor if I am an offender, or have committed anything deserving of death, I do not object to dying; but if there is nothing in these things of which these men accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. bI appeal to Caesar.”  
Verse Comparison: Acts 25:3

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American Standard Version
asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

Amplified® Bible
Asking as a favor that he would have him brought to Jerusalem; [meanwhile] they were planning an ambush to slay him on the way.

Contemporary English Version
if he would be willing to bring Paul to Jerusalem. They begged him to do this because they were planning to attack and kill Paul on the way.

Darby English Version
asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

Good News Bible
to do them the favor of having Paul come to Jerusalem, for they had made a plot to kill him on the way.

International Standard Version
and begging him as a favor to have Paul brought to Jerusalem. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the way.

King James Version
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.

New American Standard Bible
requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem ({at the same time,} setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

New International Version
They urgently requested Festus, as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

New King James Version
asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem—while they lay in ambush along the road to kill him.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

Young's Literal Translation
asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.


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