Acts 25:6-17 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 25:1-12

We commonly say, ?New lords, new laws, new customs;? but here was a new governor, and yet Paul had the same treatment from him that he had from the former, and no better. Festus, like Felix, is not so just to him as he should have been, for he does not release him; and yet not so unjust to him as the Jews would have had him to be, for he will not condemn him to die, nor expose him to their rage. Here is, I. The pressing application which the high priest and other Jews used with the governor to... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 25:13-27

We have here the preparation that was made for another hearing of Paul before King Agrippa, not in order to his giving judgment upon him, but in order to his giving advice concerning him, or rather only to gratify his curiosity. Christ had said, concerning his followers, that they should be brought before governors and kings. In the former part of this chapter Paul was brought before Festus the governor, here before Agrippa the king, for a testimony to both. Here is, I. The kind and friendly... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 25:1-12

25:1-12 Three days after he had entered into his province, Festus went up to Jerusalem. The chief priests and the chief men of the Jews laid information before him against Paul. They urged him, asking a favour against Paul, to send for him to be brought to Jerusalem, for they were hatching a plot to murder him on the way. But Festus replied that Paul was under guard at Caesarea and that he himself would soon be leaving. "So," he said, "let your men of power come down with me, and, if there is... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 25:13-21

25:13-21 When some days had elapsed, Agrippa, the king, and Bernice came to Caesarea to welcome Festus. As they were staying there for some time, Festus referred Paul's case to the king. "There is a man"," he said, "who was left behind by Felix, a prisoner. When I was in Jerusalem the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information before me concerning him and asked for his condemnation. I replied to them that it is not the custom of the Romans to grant any man's life as a favour... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:6

And when he had tarried among them more than ten days ,.... The Alexandrian copy, and three of Beza's copies, and some others, and the Vulgate Latin version read, "no more than eight or ten days"; and the Syriac and Ethiopic versions leave out the phrase "no more", and read "when he had stayed there", as the former; that is, at Jerusalem; or "when he had remained among them", as the latter; the Jews, chief priests, and others, "eight or ten days"; the historian, not being certain to a day,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:7

And when he was come ,.... Into court: the Jews which came down from Jerusalem ; along with Festus, perhaps the high priest with the elders, and Tertullus the orator, as before: stood round about ; either the Apostle Paul, or the judgment seat; the witnesses and accusers were to stand, as well as the person accused; See Gill on Mark 14:57 . And laid many and grievous complaints against Paul; which they could not prove ; for his moral conversation, both before and after... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:8

While he answered for himself ,.... As he was allowed by the Roman laws to do, he pleaded his own cause, and showed the falsehood of the charges exhibited against him; by observing, that as the crimes alleged against him were reducible to three heads, neither of them were just and true: neither against the law of the Jews ; the law of Moses, whether moral, ceremonial, or judicial; not the moral law, that he was a strict observer of, both before and since his conversion; nor the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:9

But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure ,.... As did his predecessor Felix, Acts 24:27 he being just entered upon his new government, and having met with some caresses and civilities from the Jews at Jerusalem, by whom he had been much pressed and urged about the affair of the apostle: answered Paul, and said, wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me ? meaning by the Jewish sanhedrim, he Festus being present: this was what the Jews had requested... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:10

Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat ,.... Not that here was a seat in the judgment hall built by Herod for Caesar himself to sit in, should he ever come there, as some have thought; but the seat on which Festus sat is called Caesar's judgment seat, because it was in a Raman court of judicature, and because Festus, who filled it, represented Caesar himself: where I ought to be judged : being a Roman citizen, and not at Jerusalem by the sanhedrim of the Jews, who had nothing... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:11

For if I be an offender ,.... Against the law of Moses, or the temple at Jerusalem, or Caesar the Roman emperor: or have committed anything worthy of death ; by the laws of the Romans, as sedition, murder, &c.; I refuse not to die ; signifying that he did not decline going to Jerusalem, either through any consciousness of guilt, or fear of death; for if anything could be proved against him, that was of a capital nature, he did not desire to escape death; he was ready to die for... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 25:1-12

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Acts 25:13-27

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 25:1-12

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Acts 25:13-21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:8

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:9

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Acts 25:11

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