For if I be an offender The best MSS. have not "For." Read, with Rev. Ver., "If then I am a wrong-doer." He has asserted that he was innocent so far as the Jews are concerned. If there be anything against him, it is for the civil jurisdiction of Rome, not for the religious tribunal at Jerusalem, to decide upon.

no man may deliver me unto them The full idea of the verb is expressed by the margin of the Rev. Ver., "no man may grant me by favour." The use of this word confirms the notion that St Paul saw through what the governor was doing. The word "may" represents the Greek "is able," and therefore the "can" of the Rev. Ver.is to be approved. There is no power anywhere which can give me up to them.

I appeal unto Cesar The final tribunal being the hearing of the Emperor himself.

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