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Acts 5:34-39
But a Pharisee in the council named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law held in honor by all the people, stood up and gave orders to put the men outside for a little while.And he said to them,“ Men of Israel, take care what you are about to do with these men.For before these days Theudas rose up, claiming to be somebody, and a number of men, about four hundred, joined him. He was killed, and all who followed him were dispersed and came to nothing.After him Judas the Galilean rose up in the days of the census and drew away some of the people after him. He too perished, and all who followed him were scattered.So in the present case I tell you, keep away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or this undertaking is of man, it will fail;but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them. You might even be found opposing God!” So they took his advice,
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Acts 23:9
Then a great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ party stood up and contended sharply,“ We find nothing wrong in this man. What if a spirit or an angel spoke to him?”
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Acts 23:29
I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.
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Jeremiah 36:25
Even when Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.
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Jeremiah 36:19
Then the officials said to Baruch,“ Go and hide, you and Jeremiah, and let no one know where you are.”
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Acts 25:25
But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.
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Esther 4:14
For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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Matthew 27:23-24
And he said,“ Why? what evil has he done?” But they shouted all the more,“ Let him be crucified!”So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying,“ I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.”
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Acts 26:31-32
And when they had withdrawn, they said to one another,“ This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”And Agrippa said to Festus,“ This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
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Matthew 27:54
When the centurion and those who were with him, keeping watch over Jesus, saw the earthquake and what took place, they were filled with awe and said,“ Truly this was the Son of God!”
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Jeremiah 38:7-13
When Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, a eunuch who was in the king’s house, heard that they had put Jeremiah into the cistern— the king was sitting in the Benjamin Gate—Ebed-melech went from the king’s house and said to the king,“ My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern, and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”Then the king commanded Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,“ Take thirty men with you from here, and lift Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”So Ebed-melech took the men with him and went to the house of the king, to a wardrobe in the storehouse, and took from there old rags and worn-out clothes, which he let down to Jeremiah in the cistern by ropes.Then Ebed-melech the Ethiopian said to Jeremiah,“ Put the rags and clothes between your armpits and the ropes.” Jeremiah did so.Then they drew Jeremiah up with ropes and lifted him out of the cistern. And Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.
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Luke 23:14-15
and said to them,“ You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. And after examining him before you, behold, I did not find this man guilty of any of your charges against him.Neither did Herod, for he sent him back to us. Look, nothing deserving death has been done by him.
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Jeremiah 26:11
Then the priests and the prophets said to the officials and to all the people,“ This man deserves the sentence of death, because he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your own ears.”
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Proverbs 16:7
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
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Luke 23:41
And we indeed justly, for we are receiving the due reward of our deeds; but this man has done nothing wrong.”
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Luke 23:47
Now when the centurion saw what had taken place, he praised God, saying,“ Certainly this man was innocent!”