Acts 24:1-4
PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE FELIX. The delegation of Jews from Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE FELIX. The delegation of Jews from Jerusalem:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER FIVE DAYS ANANIAS, THE HIGH PRIEST, DESCENDED WITH THE ELDERS, AND WITH A CERTAIN ORATOR NAMED TERTULLUS, WHO INFORMED THE GOVERNOR AGAINST PAUL.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS CALLED FORTH, TERTULLUS BEGAN TO ACCUSE HIM, SAYING, SEEING THAT BY THEE WE ENJOY GREAT QUIETNESS, AND THAT VERY WORTHY DEEDS ARE DONE UNTO THIS NATION BY THY PROVIDENCE,... [ Continue Reading ]
WE ACCEPT IT ALWAYS AND IN ALL PLACES, MOST NOBLE FELIX, WITH ALL THANKFULNESS.... [ Continue Reading ]
NOTWITHSTANDING, THAT I BE NOT FURTHER TEDIOUS UNTO THEE, I PRAY THEE THAT THOU WOULDEST HEAR US OF THY CLEMENCY A FEW WORDS. Paul was now once more in Caesarea, in the very city where the prophet Agabus had predicted his capture by the Gentiles, chap. 21:11. A few short weeks ago he had here enjoye... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR WE HAVE FOUND THIS MAN A PESTILENT FELLOW AND A MOVER OF SEDITION AMONG ALL THE JEWS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD AND A RINGLEADER OF THE SECT OF THE NAZARENES;... [ Continue Reading ]
The charges against Paul:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO ALSO HATH GONE ABOUT TO PROFANE THE TEMPLE; WHOM WE TOOK AND WOULD HAVE JUDGED ACCORDING TO OUR LAW.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THE CHIEF CAPTAIN LYSIAS CAME UPON US, AND WITH GREAT VIOLENCE TOOK HIM AWAY OUT OF OUR HANDS,... [ Continue Reading ]
COMMANDING HIS ACCUSERS TO COME UNTO THEE; BY EXAMINING OF WHOM THYSELF MAYEST TAKE KNOWLEDGE OF ALL THESE THINGS WHEREOF WE ACCUSE HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THE JEWS ALSO ASSENTED, SAYING THAT THESE THINGS WERE SO. After the rhetorical promise of the introduction, the statement of the charges against Paul is all the weaker by contrast. Tertullus declares that the Jews found this man a regular pest, an exceedingly bad and wicked person; an inciter of... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN PAUL, AFTER THAT THE GOVERNOR HAD BECKONED UNTO HIM TO SPEAK, ANSWERED, FORASMUCH AS I KNOW THAT THOU HAST BEEN OF MANY YEARS A JUDGE UNTO THIS NATION, I DO THE MORE CHEERFULLY ANSWER FOR MYSELF,... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul denies the charges:... [ Continue Reading ]
BECAUSE THAT THOU MAYEST UNDERSTAND THAT THERE ARE YET BUT TWELVE DAYS SINCE I WENT UP TO JERUSALEM FOR TO WORSHIP.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND THEY NEITHER FOUND ME IN THE TEMPLE DISPUTING WITH ANY MAN, NEITHER RAISING UP THE PEOPLE, NEITHER IN THE SYNAGOGUES, NOR IN THE CITY;... [ Continue Reading ]
NEITHER CAN THEY PROVE THE THINGS WHEREOF THEY NOW ACCUSE ME. Paul's position in this matter was very unpleasant, for he was suddenly, by the beckoning hand of the governor, placed face to face with the necessity of answering to charges of a very grave nature, some of which, in fact, were serious en... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT THIS I CONFESS UNTO THEE THAT AFTER THE WAY WHICH THEY CALL HERESY, SO WORSHIP I THE GOD OF MY FATHERS, BELIEVING ALL THINGS WHICH ARE WRITTEN IN THE LAW AND IN THE PROPHETS;... [ Continue Reading ]
The charge of being a Nazarene:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HAVE HOPE TOWARD GOD, WHICH THEY THEMSELVES ALSO ALLOW, THAT THERE SHALL BE A RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD, BOTH OF THE JUST AND UNJUST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HEREIN DO I EXERCISE MYSELF TO HAVE ALWAYS A CONSCIENCE VOID OF OFFENSE TOWARD GOD AND TOWARD MEN. Paul here took up the next charge, that of being a ringleader of the Nazarenes. Without referring to the title bestowed upon him, he proudly confesses to the truth of that charge, if that be a crim... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW AFTER MANY YEARS I CAME TO BRING ALMS TO MY NATION AND OFFERINGS.... [ Continue Reading ]
The conclusion of Paul's defense:... [ Continue Reading ]
WHEREUPON CERTAIN JEWS FROM ASIA FOUND ME PURIFIED IN THE TEMPLE, NEITHER WITH MULTITUDE NOR WITH TUMULT,... [ Continue Reading ]
WHO OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN HERE BEFORE THEE AND OBJECT IF THEY HAD AUGHT AGAINST ME.... [ Continue Reading ]
OR ELSE LET THESE SAME HERE SAY IF THEY HAVE FOUND ANY EVIL DOING IN ME WHILE I STOOD BEFORE THE COUNCIL,... [ Continue Reading ]
EXCEPT IT BE FOR THIS ONE VOICE, THAT I CRIED STANDING AMONG THEM, TOUCHING THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD I AM CALLED IN QUESTION BY YOU THIS DAY.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN FELIX HEARD THESE THINGS, HAVING MORE PERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF THAT WAY, HE DEFERRED THEM AND SAID, WHEN LYSIAS, THE CHIEF CAPTAIN, SHALL COME DOWN, I WILL KNOW THE UTTERMOST OF YOUR MATTER. Having disposed of the charges of the Jews and showing their utter untenableness, Paul now turns the tab... [ Continue Reading ]
AND HE COMMANDED A CENTURION TO KEEP PAUL AND TO LET HIM HAVE LIBERTY, AND THAT HE SHOULD FORBID NONE OF HIS ACQUAINTANCE TO MINISTER OR COME UNTO HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL RETAINED A PRISONER.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER CERTAIN DAYS, WHEN FELIX CAME WITH HIS WIFE DRUSILLA, WHICH WAS A JEWESS, HE SENT FOR PAUL, AND HEARD HIM CONCERNING THE FAITH IN CHRIST.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AS HE REASONED OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, TEMPERANCE, AND JUDGMENT TO COME, FELIX TREMBLED AND ANSWERED, GO THY WAY FOR THIS TIME; WHEN I HAVE A CONVENIENT SEASON, I WILL CALL FOR THEE.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE HOPED ALSO THAT MONEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN GIVEN HIM OF PAUL, THAT HE MIGHT LOOSE HIM; WHEREFORE HE SENT FOR HIM THE OFTENER, AND COMMUNED WITH HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT AFTER TWO YEARS PORCIUS FESTUS CAME INTO FELIX' ROOM; AND FELIX, WILLING TO SHOW THE JEWS A PLEASURE, LEFT PAUL BOUND. The case of Paul had been continued indefinitely; he was retained in custody only for reasons of expediency and policy on the part of Felix. But the procurator at least had enou... [ Continue Reading ]