Bible Verses About Nolle Prosequi

But when Gallio was proconsul of Achaia, the Jews with one accord rose up against Paul and brought him before the judgment-seat,

saying, This man persuadeth men to worship God contrary to the law.

But when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If indeed it were a matter of wrong or of wicked villany, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

but if they are questions about words and names and your own law, look to it yourselves; I am not minded to be a judge of these matters.

And he drove them from the judgment-seat.

And they all laid hold on Sosthenes, the ruler of the synagogue, and beat him before the judgment-seat. And Gallio cared for none of these things.