Bible verse
For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”
Acts 25:27 · BSB
The verses around it, from Acts 25.
23 The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the auditorium, along with the commanders and leading men of the city. And Festus ordered that Paul be brought in.
24 Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man. The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him, both here and in Jerusalem, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.
25 But I found he had done nothing worthy of death, and since he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.
26 I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign one about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this inquiry I may have something to write.
27 For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”
KJV
For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes [laid] against him.
ASV
For it seemeth to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not withal to signify the charges against him.
ERV
For it seemeth to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not withal to signify the charges against him.
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