Acts 23:29

“And if a man has committed a sin, the judgment of which is death, and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree,

Then the officials and all the people said to the priests and to the prophets, “No judgment of death for this man! For he has spoken to us in the name of Yahweh our God.”

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

but if there are questions about words and names and your own law, see to it yourselves; I am not willing to be a judge of these matters.”

And there occurred a great outcry; and some of the scribes of the Pharisaic party stood up and began to argue heatedly, saying, “We find nothing wrong with this man. Suppose a spirit or an angel has spoken to him?”

but they had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, a dead man whom Paul asserted to be alive.

“But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and since he himself appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, “This man is not doing anything worthy of death or imprisonment.”

“And when they had examined me, they were willing to release me because there was no ground for putting me to death.