I found he ¹  was accused with reference to controversial questions ²  about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment. ³ 

biblegateway Act 23:29

and I found him to be accused over questions about their Law, but under no accusation deserving death or imprisonment.

I found out that the accusations were about disputed matters in their law, and that there was no charge that merited death or chains.

I found _he_ was accused concerning controversial questions of their law, but having no charge deserving death or imprisonment.

biblegateway Act 23:29

I found that the accusation had to do with questions about their law, but there was no charge against him that deserved death or imprisonment.

I found that he was being accused about questions of their law, but charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.

bibleoremus Act 23:29

I found that he was accused concerning questions of their law, but was charged with nothing deserving death or imprisonment.

I found that their case had to do with controversial matters of their law, but there was no charge against him which merited death or imprisonment.

biblegateway Act 23:29

I found out that he was accused concerning questions of their law, but had nothing charged against him deserving of death or chains.

Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.

biblegateway Act 23:29

I found he ¹  was accused with reference to controversial questions ²  about their law, but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment. ³ 

¹ tn Grk “whom I found.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the relative pronoun (“whom”) has been changed to a personal pronoun (“he”) and a new sentence begun in the translation at this point.

² tn BDAG 428 s.v. ζήτημα states, “in our lit. only in Ac, w. the mng. it still has in Mod. Gk. (controversial) question, issue, argument…Ac 15:2; 26:3. ζ. περί τινος questions about someth.…18:15; 25:19. – In 23:29, since περί had already been used, the subj. of the discussion is added in the gen. ζ. τοῦ νόμου αὐτῶν.”

² sn With reference to controversial questions. Note how the “neutral” Roman authorities saw the issue. This was a religious rather than a civil dispute. See Acts 18:15.

³ tn Grk “but having no charge worthy of death or imprisonment.” BDAG 273-74 s.v. ἔγκλημα 1 has “legal t.t.…ἔ. ἄξιον θανάτου ἢ δεσμῶν a charge deserving death or imprisonment 23:29.”

³ sn Despite the official assessment that no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment, there was no effort to release Paul.