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Acts 25
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Text Words Connections Compare Context Current outline context Introduction 1:1–26 Matthias Replaces Judas 1:12–26 Pentecost 2:1–47 Peter Addresses the Crowd 2:14–36 Three Thousand Believe 2:37–41 The Fellowship of Believers 2:42–47 Peter Speaks in Solomon’s Colonnade 3:11–26 The Believer’s Prayer 4:23–31 Sharing among Believers 4:32–37 The Apostles before the Sanhedrin 5:24–32 Gamaliel’s Advice 5:33–42 Stephen’s Defense 7:1–53 Moses Narrative 7:20–38 The Rejection and Flight of Moses 7:23–29 The Call of Moses 7:30–38 The Rebellion of Israel 7:39–43 The Tabernacle of the Testimony 7:44–50 The Accused becomes the Accuser 7:51–53 The Stoning of Stephen 7:54–60 Philip’s Ministry 8:4–40 Simon the Sorcerer 8:9–25 Philip and the Ethiopian 8:26–40 Conversion of Saul of Tarsus 9:1–30 The Escape from Damascus 9:23–25 Saul in Jerusalem 9:26–30 The Healing of Aeneas 9:31–35 The Raising of Tabitha 9:36–43 Peter Visits Cornelius 10:24–33 Good News for Gentiles 10:34–43 The Gentiles Receive the Holy Spirit 10:44–48 The Church at Antioch 11:19–30 Herod Persecutes the Church 12:1–25 The Death of Herod 12:20–25 Witnesses to the Ends of the Earth 13:1–28:31 In Pisidian Antioch 13:13–52 The Return to Pisidian Antioch 14:21–25 The Report to the Church at Antioch 14:26–28 The Jerusalem Council 15:1–35 James, the Brother of Jesus, Makes the Ruling 15:13–29 The Letter to the Gentile Believers 15:22–29 The Believers at Antioch Rejoice 15:30–35 Division between Paul and Barnabas 15:36–41 Persecution on the Road 16:16–40 The Conversion of the Jailer 16:25–34 An Official Apology 16:35–40 In Athens 17:16–34 Paul’s Address in the Areopagus 17:22–34 Apollos 18:23–28 In Ephesus 19:1–41 The Riot 19:21–41 Paul’s Farewell to the Ephesians 20:17–38 Paul’s Arrival at Jerusalem 21:17–26 Paul Seized at the Temple 21:27–36 Permission to Speak 21:37–40 Paul the Roman Citizen 22:22–30 Paul on Trial 23:1–26:32 Paul Sent to Felix 23:23–35 The Verdict Postposed 24:22–27 Paul before Agrippa 25:23–26:32 Agrippa and Bernice Arrive 25:23–27
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Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,
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where the chief priests and Jewish leaders presented their case against Paul. They urged Festus
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to grant them a concession against Paul by summoning him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.
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But Festus replied, “Paul is being held in Caesarea, and I myself am going there soon.
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So if this man has done anything wrong, let some of your leaders come down with me and accuse him there.”
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After spending no more than eight or ten days with them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered that Paul be brought in.
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When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges that they could not prove.
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Then Paul made his defense: “I have committed no offense against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”
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But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to stand trial before me on these charges?”
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Paul replied, “I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.
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If, however, I am guilty of anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is no truth to their accusations against me, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
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Then Festus conferred with his council and replied, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!”
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After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
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Since they were staying several days, Festus laid out Paul’s case before the king: “There is a certain man whom Felix left in prison.
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While I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews presented their case and requested a judgment against him.
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I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand a man over before he has had an opportunity to face his accusers and defend himself against their charges.
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So when they came here with me, I did not delay. The next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered that the man be brought in.
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But when his accusers rose to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected.
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They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
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Since I was at a loss as to how to investigate these matters, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.
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But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
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Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear this man myself.” “Tomorrow you will hear him,” Festus declared.
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The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the auditorium, along with the commanders and leading men of the city. And Festus ordered that Paul be brought in.
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Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see this man. The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him, both here and in Jerusalem, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.
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But I found he had done nothing worthy of death, and since he has now appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.
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I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this inquiry I may have something to write.
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For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”
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