Acts 25:19

But had certain questions against him of their own religion, and of one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

Pagan that he was, Festus spoke sneeringly here of "a dead Jesus, Paul said was alive," affirming by such language his skepticism and lack of concern. "In this manner a Roman magistrate could speak of the most glorious truth in the Christian religion."[13] It was not the first time, nor the last, that men in public life have proved themselves to be grossly ignorant of eternal values.