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God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.
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And we are witnesses of all that he did both in the country of the Jews and in Jerusalem. They put him to death by hanging him on a tree,
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And after Herod searched for him and did not find him, he examined the sentries and ordered that they should be put to death. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent time there.
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The Death of Herod
Now Herod was angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they came to him with one accord, and having persuaded Blastus, the king's chamberlain, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king's country for food.
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And though they found in him no guilt worthy of death, they asked Pilate to have him executed.
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I persecuted this Way to the death, binding and delivering to prison both men and women,
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I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.
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If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
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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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And I did so in Jerusalem. I not only locked up many of the saints in prison after receiving authority from the chief priests, but when they were put to death I cast my vote against them.
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And when they had withdrawn, they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”
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When they had examined me, they wished to set me at liberty, because there was no reason for the death penalty in my case.