CHAPTER 25 PAUL BEFORE FESTUS—A SECOND TRIAL AT CÆSAREA § 1. The Succession of a New Governor; or, the Revival and Defeat of an Old Plot (Acts 25:1). § 2. Paul before Festus—an Appeal to the Emperor (Acts 25:6). § 3. Talked about by State Dignitaries; or, Festus’s Conversation with Agrippa abo... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 25:1. HAVING COME INTO THE PROVINCE, or _having entered upon his province—i.e._, his procuratorship (see on Acts 23:18)—Festus, after three days, ASCENDED, or _went up_ (contrast the reverse, “went down,” in Acts 24:1), from Cæsarea to JERUSALEM, the metropolis of the domini... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 25:6. MORE THAN TEN DAYS.—According to the most reliable authorities this should be _not more than eight or ten days_. Acts 25:7. The MANY AND GRIEVOUS COMPLAINTS, or charges, against Paul, which his accusers could not prove, were no doubt the same which had been preferred... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 25:13. AFTER CERTAIN DAYS, or _certain days having gone by_; how many is unknown. AGRIPPA THE KING was Herod Agrippa II., the son of Agrippa I., mentioned in Acts 12:1; Acts 12:19, and the Jewish vassal-prince of Rome, who, on his father’s death, was considered too young to s... [ Continue Reading ]
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 25:23. THE CHIEF CAPTAINS were the chiliarchs or commanders of the cohorts stationed at Cæsarea—which cohorts were five in number (Jos., _Wars_, III. iv. 2). Acts 25:24. ALL THE MULTITUDE OF THE JEWS, the procurator says, had dealt with or made suit to him because the Jewis... [ Continue Reading ]