Change of Venue

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Bible verses about “Change of Venue”

The first verses cited, in the King James Version.

• Acts 23:17Then Paul called one of the centurions unto him, and said, Bring this young man unto the chief captain: for he hath a certain thing to tell him.
• Acts 23:18So he took him, and brought him to the chief captain, and said, Paul the prisoner called me unto him, and prayed me to bring this young man unto thee, who hath something to say unto thee.
• Acts 23:19Then the chief captain took him by the hand, and went with him aside privately, and asked him, What is that thou hast to tell me?
• Acts 23:20And he said, The Jews have agreed to desire thee that thou wouldest bring down Paul to morrow into the council, as though they would enquire somewhat of him more perfectly.
• Acts 23:21But do not thou yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, which have bound themselves with an oath, that they will neither eat nor drink till they have killed him: and now are they ready, looking for a promise from thee.
• Acts 23:22So the chief captain then let the young man depart, and charged him, See thou tell no man that thou hast shewed these things to me.
• Acts 23:23And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;
• Acts 23:24And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
• Acts 23:25And he wrote a letter after this manner:
• Acts 23:26Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
• Acts 23:27This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
• Acts 23:28And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
• Acts 23:29Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
• Acts 23:30And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
• Acts 23:31Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.
• Acts 23:32On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:
• Acts 23:33Who, when they came to Cesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
• Acts 23:34And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
• Acts 23:35I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.
• Acts 25:9But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
• Acts 25:11For 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 Cesar.