Acts 25:11 (KJV)

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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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if I. Ac 18:14 Jos 22:22 1Sa 12:3-5 Job 31:21 Job 31:38-40 Ps 7:3-5

no man. Ac 16:37 Ac 22:25 1Th 2:15

I appeal.An appeal to the emperor was the right of a Roman citizen, and was highly respected. The Julian law condemned those magistrates, and others, as violaters of the public peace, who had put to death, tortured, scourged, imprisoned, or condemned any Roman citizen who had appealed to Cesar. This law was so sacred and imperative, that, in the persecution under Trajan, Pliny would not attempt to put to death Roman citizens, who were proved to have turned Christians, but determined to send them to Rome, probably because they had appealed. Ac 25:10 Ac 25:25 Ac 26:32 Ac 28:19 1Sa 27:1

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