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 still wanted to kill him, and his freedom might not have lasted very long. But it is God's will that he go to Rome as a prisoner of the Roman Government (see Acts 28:16 and note).
THIS MAN DOETH NOTHING WORTHY OF DEATH - This was the conclusion to which they had come after hearing all that the Jews had to allege against him. It was the result of the whole investigation; and we...
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)...
As Paul was making his defence, Festus cried out, "Paul, you are mad. Much learning has turned you to madness." But Paul said, "I am not mad, Festus, your Excellency, but I am uttering words of truth...
GONE ASIDE. Greek. _anachoreo._ See Acts 23:19. TALKED. Greek. _laleo_. App-121. BETWEEN THEMSELVES. to (Greek. _pros._ App-104.) one another, MAN. Greek. _anthropos._ App-123. NOTHING. Greek. _ou...
_they talked between themselves R. V._"they spake one to another." This is more literal and conveys better the idea that they were all of one mind about the case....
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...
ἘΛΆΛΟΥΝ ΠΡῸΣ�, _they spake one to another_. This literal sense brings out more clearly that they were all of one mind about the case....
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...
ΆΝΑΧΩΡΉΣΑΝΤΕΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΝΑΧΩΡΈΩ (G402) удаляться, уходить. ΈΛΆΛΟΥΝ _impf. ind. act., см._ Acts 26:22. _Impf._ продолжает действие и описывает разговор должностных лиц о чудесной ре...
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....
See notes on verse 30...
AND WHEN THEY WERE GONE ASIDE, THEY TALKED BETWEEN THEMSELVES, SAYING, THIS MAN DOETH NOTHING WORTHY OF DEATH OR OF BONDS. _ And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, T...
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...
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 DOETH NOTHING WORTHY OF DEATH OR OF BONDS. — St. Luke obviously dwells on the witness thus given to St. Paul’s innocence. To us, knowing him as we do, the anxiety to record the witness seems...
πράσσει, present tense: “agit de vitæ instituto” (Grotius, Blass)....
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...
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...
− 31._They spake together. _In that Paul is acquitted by the judgment of them all, it turned to the great renown of the gospel. And when Festus agreeth to the rest he condemneth himself, seeing he had...
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...
AND WHEN THEY WERE GONE ASIDE,.... Into some apartment adjoining to the judgment hall: THEY TALKED BETWEEN THEMSELVES; that the common people might not hear their debates, and the result of them, and...
And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds. Ver. 31. _This man doth nothing worthy_] Here Festus, consenting with the re...
_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...
AND WHEN THEY WERE GONE ASIDE, THEY TALKED BETWEEN THEMSELVES, SAYING, THIS MAN DOETH NOTHING WORTHY OF DEATH OR OF BONDS....
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...
"and when they had withdrawn, they spake one to another, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds" The unanimous conclusion was that Paul was innocent (Acts 25:25). Acts 26:32 "And A...
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...
GONE ASIDE; either to their houses, or to some apartment nigh to the tribunal. They acquit Paul; for as yet Nero had not made those bloody laws, whereby the profession of Christianity was made capital...
Acts 26:31 and G2532 aside G402 (G5660) talked G2980 (G5707) among G4314 themselves G240 saying G3004 ...
‘And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they who sat with them, and when they had withdrawn, they spoke one to another, saying, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.” '...
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 26:31. AND WHEN THEY WERE GONE ASIDE, THEY TALKED BETWEEN THEMSELVES, SAYING, THIS MAN DOETH NOTHING WORTHY OF DEATH OR OF BONDS. The second of these public expressions of opinion on the part of...
THEY SPAKE ONE TO ANOTHER (ελαλουν προς αλληλους). Imperfect active, describing the eager conversation of the dignitaries about Paul's wonderful speech.NOTHING WORTHY OF DEATH OR BONDS (ουδεν θανα...
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...
_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...
1 Peter 3:16; 1 Peter 4:14; 2 Samuel 24:17; Acts 23:29; Acts 23:9;...
Doeth. Referring, not to Paul's past conduct, but to the general character of his life....
This man doth nothing worthy of death, or of bonds — They speak of his whole life, not of one action only. And could ye learn nothing more than this from that discourse? A favourable judgment of such...