^25:20Because I was at a loss⁷⁴ how I could investigate these matters,⁷⁵ I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried⁷⁶ there on these charges.⁷⁷

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Footnotes

74 Or “Because I was undecided.” Grk “Being at a loss.” The participle ἀπορούμενος (aporoumenos) has been translated as a causal adverbial participle.
75 L&N 27.34 states, “ἀπορούμενος δὲ ἐγὼ τὴν περὶ τούτων ζήτησιν ‘I was undecided about how I could get information on these matters’ Ac 25:20. The clause ‘about how I could get information on these matters’ may also be rendered as ‘about how I should try to find out about these matters’ or ‘about how I could learn about these matters.’ ”
76 Or “stand trial.”
77 Grk “on these things.”

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Being at a loss how to investigate these questions, I asked whether he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding them.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I was at a loss how to investigate such matters; so I asked if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial there on these charges.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Since I was at a loss in a dispute over such things, I asked him if he wanted to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding these matters.

NLTNew Living Translation

I was at a loss to know how to investigate these things, so I asked him whether he would be willing to stand trial on these charges in Jerusalem.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And because I was at a loss with regard to the investigation concerning these things, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and to be judged there concerning these things.

KJV 1900King James Version

And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.

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