Acts 25:18

18 [When they] stood up, [his] accusers began bringing no charge concerning {him} of the evil deeds that I was suspecting,

Acts 25:18 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 25:18

Against whom when the accusers stood up
As they were obliged to do, whilst they were exhibiting their charges, bearing their testimonies, and producing their proofs; ( Acts 25:7 ) .

They brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
for by his being left in bonds, and by the information of the chief priests and elders, and their violence against him, he imagined he must be chargeable with some notorious capital crime.

Acts 25:18 In-Context

16 To {them} I replied that it was not the custom of the Romans to give up any man before the one who had been accused met [his] accusers face to [face] and received an opportunity for a defense concerning the accusation.

17 Therefore, [when] they had assembled here, [I] made no delay; on the next [day] I sat down on the judgment seat [and] gave orders [for] the man to be brought.

18 [When they] stood up, [his] accusers began bringing no charge concerning {him} of the evil deeds that I was suspecting,

19 but they had some issues with him concerning their own religion, and concerning a certain Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

20 And [because] I was at a loss with regard to the investigation concerning these [things], I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and to be judged there concerning these [things].

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("stood up") which is understood as temporal
• [b]. *Literally "the"; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
• [c]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began bringing")
• [d]. Literally "whom"