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Acts 25 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Paul before Festus

Act 25:1

Act 25:1Festus then, having arrived in the province, three days later went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Act 25:2

Act 25:2And the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul, and they were urging him,

Act 25:3

Act 25:3requesting a [fn]concession against [fn]Paul, that he might [fn]have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

Act 25:4

Act 25:4Festus then answered that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself was about to leave shortly.

Act 25:5

Act 25:5“Therefore,” he *said, “let the influential men among you [fn]go there with me, and if there is anything wrong [fn]about the man, let them [fn]prosecute him.”

Act 25:6

Act 25:6After he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.

Act 25:7

Act 25:7After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove,

Act 25:8

Act 25:8while Paul said in his own defense, “I have committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

Act 25:9

Act 25:9But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and [fn]stand trial before me on these charges?”

Act 25:10

Act 25:10But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.

Act 25:11

Act 25:11“If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

Act 25:12

Act 25:12Then when Festus had conferred with [fn]his council, he answered, “You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go.”

Act 25:13

Act 25:13Now when several days had elapsed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea [fn]and paid their respects to Festus.

Act 25:14

Act 25:14While they were spending many days there, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix;

Act 25:15

Act 25:15and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.

Act 25:16

Act 25:16“I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to hand over any man before the accused meets his accusers face to face and has an opportunity to make his defense against the charges.

Act 25:17

Act 25:17“So after they had assembled here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my seat on the tribunal and ordered the man to be brought before me.

Act 25:18

Act 25:18“When the accusers stood up, they began bringing charges against him not of such crimes as I was expecting,

Act 25:19

Act 25:19but they simply had some points of disagreement with him about their own [fn]religion and about a dead man, Jesus, whom Paul asserted to be alive.

Act 25:20

Act 25:20“Being at a loss how to investigate [fn]such matters, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there stand trial on these matters.

Act 25:21

Act 25:21“But when Paul appealed to be held in custody for [fn]the Emperor’s decision, I ordered him to be kept in custody until I send him to Caesar.”

Act 25:22

Act 25:22Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he *said, “you shall hear him.”

Paul before Agrippa

Act 25:23

Act 25:23So, on the next day when Agrippa came [fn]together with Bernice amid great pomp, and entered the auditorium [fn]accompanied by the [fn]commanders and the prominent men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Act 25:24

Act 25:24Festus *said, “King Agrippa, and all you gentlemen here present with us, you see this man about whom all the people of the Jews appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly declaring that he ought not to live any longer.

Act 25:25

Act 25:25“But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death; and since he himself appealed to [fn]the Emperor, I decided to send him.

Act 25:26

Act 25:26“[fn]Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write.

Act 25:27

Act 25:27“For it seems absurd to me in sending a prisoner, not to indicate also the charges against him.”
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NASB95 Footnotes
Or, favor
Literally: him
Literally: send for him to Jerusalem
Literally: go down
Literally: in
Or, accuse
Literally: be judged
A different group from that mentioned in Acts 4:15 and 24:20
Literally: greeting Festus
Or, superstition
Literally: these
Literally: the Augustus's (in this case Nero)
Literally: and Bernice
Literally: and with
I.e. chiliarchs, in command of one thousand troops
V 21, note 1
Literally: About whom I have nothing definite
*
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