Acts 28:21
Good News Translation
They said to him, "We have not received any letters from Judea about you, nor have any of our people come from there with any news or anything bad to say about you.

New Revised Standard Version
They replied, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, and none of the brothers coming here has reported or spoken anything evil about you.

Contemporary English Version
The leaders replied, "No one from Judea has written us a letter about you. And not one of them has come here to report on you or to say anything against you.

New American Bible
They answered him, “We have received no letters from Judea about you, nor has any of the brothers arrived with a damaging report or rumor about you.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea: neither did any of the brethren that came hither relate or speak any evil of thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea: neither did any of the brethren that came hither relate or speak any evil of thee.

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Exodus 11:7 But with all the children of Israel there shall not a dog make the least noise, from man even to beast; that you may know how wonderful a difference the Lord maketh between the Egyptians and Israel.

Isaiah 41:11 Behold all that fight against thee shall be confounded and ashamed, they shall be as nothing, and the men shall perish that strive against thee.

Isaiah 50:8 He is near that justifieth me, who will contend with me? let us stand together, who is my adversary? let him come near to me.

Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper: and every tongue that resisteth thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. This is the inheritance of the servants of the Lord, and their justice with me, saith the Lord.

Context
Paul Preaches at Rome
20For this cause therefore I desired to see you and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain. 21But they said to him: We neither received letters concerning thee from Judea: neither did any of the brethren that came hither relate or speak any evil of thee. 22But we desire to hear of thee what thou thinkest: for as concerning this sect, we know that it is every where contradicted.…
Cross References
Acts 3:17
And now, brethren, I know that you did it through ignorance: as did also your rulers.

Acts 22:5
As the high priest doth bear me witness and all the ancients. From whom also receiving letters to the brethren, I went to Damascus, that I might bring them bound from thence to Jerusalem to be punished.

Acts 28:14
Where, finding brethren, we were desired to tarry with them seven days. And so we went to Rome.

Romans 9:3
For I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ, for my brethren: who are my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Acts 28:20
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