I will hear thee [δ ι α κ ο υ σ ο μ α ι]. Better, as Rev., will hear thy cause; the word meaning "to hear fully [δ ι α] in a judicial sense." The present questioning was merely preliminary.

Herod's palace. Built by Herod the Great. Judaea being now a Roman province, the palace of its former kings had become the governor's official residence. It thus appears that Paul was leniently dealt with, and not cast into the common prison.

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