Acts 25:1-5
PAUL APPEALS TO CAESAR. Acts 25:1 The hearing before Festus arranged:... [ Continue Reading ]
PAUL APPEALS TO CAESAR. Acts 25:1 The hearing before Festus arranged:... [ Continue Reading ]
NOW WHEN FESTUS WAS COME INTO THE PROVINCE, AFTER THREE DAYS HE ASCENDED FROM CAESAREA TO JERUSALEM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN THE HIGH PRIEST AND THE CHIEF OF THE JEWS INFORMED HIM AGAINST PAUL, AND BESOUGHT HIM,... [ Continue Reading ]
AND DESIRED FAVOR AGAINST HIM, THAT HE WOULD SEND FOR HIM TO JERUSALEM, LAYING WAIT IN THE WAY TO KILL HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT FESTUS ANSWERED THAT PAUL SHOULD BE KEPT AT CAESAREA, AND THAT HE HIMSELF WOULD DEPART SHORTLY THITHER.... [ Continue Reading ]
LET 'THEM THEREFORE, SAID HE, WHICH AMONG YOU ARE ABLE GO DOWN WITH ME AND ACCUSE THIS MAN, IF THERE BE ANY WICKEDNESS IN HIM. Porcius Festus, the new procurator of Palestine, is spoken of in terms of praise by Josephus, because he succeeded in dispersing the bands of robbers and in putting to death... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE HAD TARRIED AMONG THEM MORE THAN TEN DAYS, HE WENT DOWN UNTO CAESAREA; AND THE NEXT DAY, SITTING ON THE JUDGMENT-SEAT, COMMANDED PAUL TO BE BROUGHT.... [ Continue Reading ]
The beginning of the trial:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN HE WAS COME, THE JEWS WHICH CAME DOWN FROM JERUSALEM STOOD ROUND ABOUT, AND LAID MANY AND GRIEVOUS COMPLAINTS AGAINST PAUL, WHICH THEY COULD NOT PROVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHILE HE ANSWERED FOR HIMSELF, NEITHER AGAINST THE LAW OF THE JEWS, NEITHER AGAINST THE TEMPLE, NOR YET AGAINST CAESAR HAVE I OFFENDED ANYTHING AT ALL. After the interview with the Jews, Festus remained in Jerusalem not more than eight or ten days, busy all the while in trying to get acquainted with... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT FESTUS, WILLING TO DO THE JEWS A PLEASURE, ANSWERED PAUL AND SAID, WILT THOU GO UP TO JERUSALEM, AND THERE BE JUDGED OF THESE THINGS BEFORE ME?... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul's appeal:... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN SAID PAUL, I STAND AT CAESAR'S JUDGMENT-SEAT, WHERE I OUGHT TO BE JUDGED. TO THE JEWS HAVE I DONE NO WRONG, AS THOU VERY WELL KNOWEST.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IF I BE AN OFFENDER, OR HAVE COMMITTED ANYTHING WORTHY OF DEATH, I REFUSE NOT TO DIE; BUT IF THERE BE NONE OF THESE THINGS WHEREOF THESE ACCUSE ME, NO MAN MAY DELIVER ME UNTO THEM. I APPEAL UNTO CAESAR.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN FESTUS, WHEN HE HAD CONFERRED WITH THE COUNCIL, ANSWERED, HAST THOU APPEALED UNTO CAESAR? UNTO CAESAR SHALT THOU GO. Evidently the Jews, with the persistence that characterizes them, had not quite given up their project of having Paul brought to Jerusalem. at any rate, the idea that he might ga... [ Continue Reading ]
AGRIPPA AND BERNICE IN CAESAREA. Festus lays the matter before Agrippa:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND AFTER CERTAIN DAYS KING AGRIPPA AND BERNICE CAME UNTO CAESAREA TO SALUTE FESTUS.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND WHEN THEY HAD BEEN THERE MANY DAYS, FESTUS DECLARED PAUL'S CAUSE UNTO THE KING, SAYING, THERE IS A CERTAIN MAN LEFT IN BONDS BY FELIX,... [ Continue Reading ]
ABOUT WHOM, WHEN I WAS AT JERUSALEM, THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS OF THE JEWS INFORMED ME, DESIRING TO HAVE JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
TO WHOM I ANSWERED, IT IS NOT THE MANNER OF THE ROMANS TO DELIVER ANY MAN TO DIE BEFORE THAT HE WHICH IS ACCUSED HAVE THE ACCUSERS FACE TO FACE, AND HAVE LICENSE TO ANSWER FOR HIMSELF CONCERNING THE CRIME LAID AGAINST HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEREFORE, WHEN THEY WERE COME HITHER, WITHOUT ANY DELAY ON THE MORROW I SAT ON THE JUDGMENT SEAT AND COMMANDED THE MAN TO BE BROUGHT FORTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AGAINST WHOM, WHEN THE ACCUSERS STOOD UP, THEY BROUGHT NONE ACCUSATION OF SUCH THINGS AS I SUPPOSED,... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT HAD CERTAIN QUESTIONS AGAINST HIM OF THEIR OWN SUPERSTITION, AND OF ONE JESUS, WHICH WAS DEAD, WHOM PAUL AFFIRMED TO BE ALIVE.... [ Continue Reading ]
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.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN PAUL HAD APPEALED TO BE RESERVED UNTO THE HEARING OF AUGUSTUS, I COMMANDED HIM TO BE KEPT TILL I MIGHT SEND HIM TO CAESAR. After a few days had passed, sometime after the trial or preliminary hearing which was destined to have such far-reaching consequences, King Agrippa and his sister Bern... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN AGRIPPA SAID UNTO FESTUS, I WOULD ALSO HEAR THE MAN MYSELF. TOMORROW, SAID HE, THOU SHALT HEAR HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
Paul presented before Agrippa:... [ Continue Reading ]
AND ON THE MORROW, WHEN AGRIPPA WAS COME, AND BERNICE, WITH GREAT POMP, AND WAS ENTERED INTO THE PLACE OF HEARING, WITH THE CHIEF CAPTAINS AND PRINCIPAL MEN OF THE CITY, AT FESTUS' COMMANDMENT PAUL WAS BROUGHT FORTH.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND FESTUS SAID, KING AGRIPPA, AND ALL MEN WHICH ARE HERE PRESENT WITH US, YE SEE THIS MAN ABOUT WHOM ALL THEM MULTITUDE OF THE JEWS HAVE DEALT WITH ME, BOTH AT JERUSALEM, AND ALSO HERE, CRYING THAT HE OUGHT NOT TO LIVE ANY LONGER.... [ Continue Reading ]
BUT WHEN I FOUND THAT HE HAD COMMITTED NOTHING WORTHY OF DEATH, AND THAT HE HIMSELF HATH APPEALED TO AUGUSTUS, I HAVE DETERMINED TO SEND HIM.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF WHOM I HAVE NO CERTAIN THING TO WRITE UNTO MY LORD. WHEREFORE I HAVE BROUGHT HIM FORTH BEFORE YOU, AND SPECIALLY BEFORE THEE, O KING AGRIPPA, THAT, AFTER EXAMINATION HAD, I MIGHT HAVE SOMEWHAT TO WRITE.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR IT SEEMETH TO ME UNREASONABLE TO SEND A PRISONER, AND NOT WITHAL TO SIGNIFY THE CRIMES LAID AGAINST HIM. Agrippa was naturally interested in Paul, the great teacher of Christianity, just as his relative, some thirty years before, had been desirous of seeing Jesus, Luke 23:8. His family had alway... [ Continue Reading ]