Combined Bible Commentary
Acts 26:32
See notes on verse 30
See notes on verse 30
Verse Acts 26:32. _THEN SAID AGRIPPA_, c.] The king himself, who had participated in the strongest emotions on the occasion, feels himself prompted to wish the apostle's immediate liberation but this...
THEN SAID AGRIPPA UNTO FESTUS ... - This is a full declaration of the conviction of Agrippa, before whom the cause had been heard, that Paul was innocent. It is an instance, also, where boldness and f...
CHAPTER 26 __ 1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2). 2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24). 3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30). The opening words of the Apostle a...
RESULT OF THE HEARING. Acts 26:30 scarcely suggests the deliberations of a court after the hearing....
THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
MIGHT HAVE BEEN. could have been, or was able to be. SET AT LIBERTY. Greek. _apoluo._ App-174. IF. Greek. _ei_, as in Acts 26:8. APPEALED. Greek. _epikaleomai._ See Acts 25:11....
_might have been set at liberty_ Thus Agrippa, looking at the question from the Jewish stand-point, confirms the opinion of the Roman magistrate (cp. Acts 25:25). So that St Paul was acquitted on all...
Interruption by Festus. Appeal to Agrippa. Consultation and decision 24 _Festus said with a loud voice_ Probably what had last fallen from Paul seemed to him little better than lunatic ravings. The G...
ἈΠΟΛΕΛΎΣΘΑΙ ἘΔΎΝΑΤΟ, _might have been set at liberty_. Thus Agrippa, looking at the question from the Jewish standpoint, confirms the opinion of the Roman magistrate (cf. Acts 25:25). So that St Paul...
INTERRUPTION BY FESTUS. APPEAL TO AGRIPPA. CONSULTATION AND DECISION...
_PAUL PROVED HIMSELF TO BE INNOCENT ACTS 26:24-32:_ Festus reacted by saying that Paul was a mad man. Paul said he was not mad and that what he preached was true and in harmony with scripture. Paul th...
ΈΦΗ _impf._ I _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 26:1. ΆΠΟΛΕΛΎΣΘΑΙ _perf. pass. inf. от_ ΑΠΟΛΎΩ (G630) отпускать, освобождать, ΈΔΎΝΑΤΟ _impf. ind. pass. (dep.) от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным, с _inf. Im...
THIS MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN SET AT LIBERTY, IF, &C.— Though this declaration of Agrippa would not secure St. Paul's deliverance, yet it might do him some service, that a testimony to his innocence was pr...
f. Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32. Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
THEN SAID AGRIPPA UNTO FESTUS, THIS MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN SET AT LIBERTY, IF HE HAD NOT APPEALED UNTO CAESAR. Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appe...
22 It is evident that the apostle did disclose secrets which cannot be found in Moses and the prophets. One of these was the secret of the resurrecction, made known to the Corinthians (1Co_15:15). Ano...
DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his whole...
Agrippa, speaking as a Jew, pronounces St. Paul's views orthodox, or at least not heretical. There is nothing in them, he thinks, contrary to the OT., though, of course he does not accept them as true...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11 V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
THIS MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN SET AT LIBERTY... — The decision to which Agrippa came showed the wisdom of the line which St. Paul had taken. The matter could not be hushed up nor got rid of. The authoritie...
ἐδύνατο : a true affirmative imperfect of verbs denoting obligation or possibility, when used to affirm that a certain thing could or should have been done under the circumstances narrated; therefore...
CONVINCING HIS INQUISITORS Acts 26:22 Paul was in his element. He was delivering to kings and governors the testimony which it was the constant object of his life to give, when suddenly he was stoppe...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
Agrippa's Response Festus interrupted with a loud declaration that Paul had gone crazy from too much learning. It seems Paul's failure to defend himself, instead focussing on converting his judges, wa...
REFLECTIONS IT will be a blessed improvement of this chapter, under the Holy Ghost's teachings, if by contemplating the different characters at this assembly; our souls are led to see how dignified wa...
And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them: (31) And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth no...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
THEN SAID AGRIPPA UNTO FESTUS,.... As declaring his sense, and by way of advice and counsel; but not as determining anything himself, for that lay in the breast of Festus, the Roman governor and judge...
Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar. Ver. 32. _If he had not appealed_] Which if he had not, this freeman of Rome had been "free...
_And when he had thus spoken_ That the impression Paul began to make upon the court might reach no further; _the king rose up_ Thus neglecting to yield to conviction, and losing, perhaps for ever, an...
SET AT LIBERTY; he is an innocent man, guilty of no crime....
THEN SAID AGRIPPA UNTO FESTUS, THIS MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN SET AT LIBERTY IF HE HAD NOT APPEALED UNTO CAESAR. When Paul had made his last appeal, the king arose, this being the signal that he wished the...
The end of the hearing:...
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
AND WHEN THEY HAD GONE ASIDE, THEY TALKED AMONG THEMSELVES, SAYING, " THIS MAN IS DOING NOTHING DESERVING OF DEATH OR CHAINS. " 32 THEN AGRIPPA SAID TO FESTUS, " THIS MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN SET FREE IF...
24-32 It becomes us, on all occasions, to speak the words of truth and soberness, and then we need not be troubled at the unjust censures of men. Active and laborious followers of the gospel often ha...
These judges and great men do, by their opinion concerning Paul, condemn the Jews, whom they declare to have no cause for the prosecuting of him; and so those caitiffs returned to Jerusalem, not only...
Acts 26:32 Then G1161 Agrippa G67 said G5346 (G5713) Festus G5347 This G3778 man G444 might G1410 ...
‘And Agrippa said to Festus, “his man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.” ' So much so that Agrippa said to Festus that Paul might have been immediately set free, if he...
PAUL IS DECLARED TO HAVE DONE NOTHING WORTHY OF DEATH AND THUS TO HAVE CONFORMED TO THE LAW, BUT KING HEROD AGRIPPA II CLOSES HIS HEART AGAINST HIS WORDS (26:24-32)....
Acts 26:32. THEN SAID AGRIPPA UNTO FESTUS, THIS MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN SET AT LIBERTY, IF HE HAD NOT APPEALED UNTO CÆSAR. On first thought, it would seem as though this appeal of the apostle was a disast...
THIS MAN MIGHT HAVE BEEN SET AT LIBERTY (Απολελυσθα εδυνατο ο ανθρωπος ουτος). Conclusion of the second class condition (determined as unfulfilled) without αν as in Acts 24:19 because of εδυνατο (ve...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject, as...
Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:_ I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar. CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself, it is well if h...
Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
THEY SAID TO EACH OTHER. They agree that Paul is not guilty of any crime. THIS MAN COULD HAVE BEEN RELEASED. Paul would have been a free man, if he had not appealed to the Emperor. However, the Jews s...
_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself._ PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the one...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 26:24. AS HE THUS SPAKE FOR HIMSELF.—Lit., _he speaking these things in his defence_—ταῦτα, these things, being the words just uttered about the resurrection, rather than the e...
EXPOSITION ACTS 26:1 And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for _answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the temple m...
Acts 25:11; Acts 25:12; Acts 25:25; Acts 28:18...