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It happened, that after three days Paul called together those who were the leaders of the Jews. When they had come together, he said to them, "I, brothers, though I had done nothing against the people, or the customs of our fathers, still was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans,
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who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.
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But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.
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For this cause therefore did I ask you to see and to speak with me. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain."