Acts 25:12

25:12 Then, after conferring with his council, ¹  Festus ²  replied, “You have appealed to Caesar; ³  to Caesar ⁴  you will go!” ⁵ 

Acts 26:32

26:32 Agrippa ⁶  said to Festus, ⁷  “This man could have been released ⁸  if he had not appealed to Caesar.” ⁹ 

Acts 28:19

28:19 But when the Jews objected, ¹⁰  I was forced to appeal to Caesar ¹¹  – not that I had some charge to bring ¹²  against my own people. ¹³ 

Acts 25:8

25:8 Paul said in his defense, ¹⁴  “I have committed no offense ¹⁵  against the Jewish law ¹⁶  or against the temple or against Caesar.” ¹⁷ 

Acts 25:21

25:21 But when Paul appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor, ¹⁸  I ordered him to be kept under guard until I could send him to Caesar.” ¹⁹ 

[25:12]  ¹ tn That is, with his advisers.

[25:12]  ² sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

[25:12]  ³ tn Or “to the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).

[25:12]  ⁴ tn Or “to the emperor.”

[25:12]  ⁵ sn “To Caesar you will go!” In all probability Festus was pleased to send Paul on to Rome and get this political problem out of his court.

[26:32]  ⁶ sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.

[26:32]  ⁷ sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

[26:32]  ⁸ tn Or “set free.”

[26:32]  ⁹ tn Or “to the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).

[28:19]  ¹¹ tn That is, objected to my release.

[28:19]  ¹² tn Or “to the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).

[28:19]  ¹³ tn BDAG 533 s.v. κατηγορέω 1 states, “nearly always as legal t.t.: bring charges in court.” L&N 33.427 states for κατηγορέω, “to bring serious charges or accusations against someone, with the possible connotation of a legal or court context – ‘to accuse, to bring charges.’”

[28:19]  ¹⁴ tn Or “my own nation.”

[25:8]  ¹⁶ tn Grk “Paul saying in his defense”; the participle ἀπολογουμένου (apologoumenou) could be taken temporally (“when Paul said…”), but due to the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the participle was translated as a finite verb and a new sentence begun here in the translation. BDAG 116-17 s.v. ἀπολογέομαι has “W. ὅτι foll. τοῦ Παύλου ἀπολογουμένου, ὅτι when Paul said in his defense (direct quot. foll.) Ac 25:8.”

[25:8]  ¹⁷ tn Grk “I have sinned…in nothing.”

[25:8]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “against the law of the Jews.” Here τῶν ᾿Ιουδαίων has been translated as an attributive genitive.

[25:8]  ¹⁹ tn Or “against the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).

[25:21]  ²¹ tn A designation of the Roman emperor (in this case, Nero). BDAG 917 s.v. σεβαστός states, “ὁ Σεβαστός His Majesty the Emperor Ac 25:21, 25 (of Nero).” It was a translation into Greek of the Latin “Augustus.”

[25:21]  ²² tn Or “to the emperor” (“Caesar” is a title for the Roman emperor).