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Text -- Acts 25:13-27 (NET)

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Festus Asks King Agrippa for Advice
25:13 After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus. 25:14 While they were staying there many days, Festus explained Paul’s case to the king to get his opinion, saying, “There is a man left here as a prisoner by Felix. 25:15 When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him. 25:16 I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met his accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the accusation. 25:17 So after they came back here with me, I did not postpone the case, but the next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought. 25:18 When his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected. 25:19 Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive. 25:20 Because I was at a loss how I could investigate these matters, I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges. 25:21 But when Paul appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor, I ordered him to be kept under guard until I could send him to Caesar.” 25:22 Agrippa said to Festus, “I would also like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, “you will hear him.”
Paul Before King Agrippa and Bernice
25:23 So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience hall, along with the senior military officers and the prominent men of the city. When Festus gave the order, Paul was brought in. 25:24 Then Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all you who are present here with us, you see this man about whom the entire Jewish populace petitioned me both in Jerusalem and here, shouting loudly that he ought not to live any longer. 25:25 But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him. 25:26 But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this preliminary hearing I may have something to write. 25:27 For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him.”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Agrippa King Herod Agrippa II; a great-grandson of Herod the Great
 · Augustus the Roman emperor named Caesar Augustus who was ruling when Christ was born,an honorary title used for Roman emperors
 · Bernice a daughter of Herod Agrippa I.
 · Caesar a title held by Roman emperors
 · Caesarea a town on the Mediterranean 40 kilometers south of Mt. Carmel and 120 kilometers NW of Jerusalem.
 · Felix the governor of Judea at the time Paul visited Jerusalem for the last time
 · Festus the governor of Judea who succeeded Felix
 · Jerusalem the capital city of Israel,a town; the capital of Israel near the southern border of Benjamin
 · Jewish the people descended from Israel
 · Jews the people descended from Israel
 · Roman any person or thing associated with Rome, particularly a person who was a citizen of Rome.


Dictionary Themes and Topics: APPEAL | Festus | Minister | Paul | MONEY | Prisoners | FESTUS; PORCIUS | Herod Arippa II. | Appeal to Caesar | Bernice | Indictments | ACCUSER | Augustus | BERNICE, OR BERENICE | EMPEROR | FAULT | HEROD | CRIME; CRIMES | Women | CAESAREA | more
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NET Notes: Act 25:13 See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

NET Notes: Act 25:14 Grk “Festus laid Paul’s case before the king for consideration.” BDAG 74 s.v. ἀνατίθημι...

NET Notes: Act 25:15 BDAG 516 s.v. καταδίκη states, “condemnation, sentence of condemnation, conviction, guilty verdict…...

NET Notes: Act 25:16 Or “indictment” (a legal technical term). BDAG 273-74 s.v. ἔγκλημα 1 states, “legal t.t.…&...

NET Notes: Act 25:17 The judgment seat (βῆμα, bhma) was a raised platform mounted by steps and sometimes furnished with a seat, used by officials in a...

NET Notes: Act 25:18 Or “I was expecting.”

NET Notes: Act 25:19 Or “asserted.”

NET Notes: Act 25:20 Grk “on these things.”

NET Notes: Act 25:21 Or “to the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).

NET Notes: Act 25:22 Grk “said.”

NET Notes: Act 25:23 Grk “and Festus ordering, Paul was brought in.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun in th...

NET Notes: Act 25:24 Or “screaming.”

NET Notes: Act 25:25 The word “him” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were often omitted in Greek when clear from the context, but must ...

NET Notes: Act 25:26 Or “investigation.” BDAG 66 s.v. ἀνάκρισις has “a judicial hearing, investigation, hea...

NET Notes: Act 25:27 Without clearly indicating the charges against him. Again the point is made by Festus himself that there is difficulty even in articulating a charge a...

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