Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
into.
Acts 23:34 And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province …
the province. By the province, Judea is meant; for after the death of Herod Agrippa, Claudius thought it imprudent to trust the government in the hands of his son Agrippa, who was then but seventeen years of age; and therefore, Cuspius Fadus was sent to be procurator. And when afterwards Claudius had given to Agrippa the tetrarchy of Philip, he nevertheless kept the province of Judea in his own hands, and governed it by procurators sent from Rome.
he.
Acts 25:5 Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with …
Acts 18:22 And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the …
Acts 21:15 And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
desired.
Acts 9:2 And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if …
1 Samuel 23:19-21 Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Does not David …
Jeremiah 38:4 Therefore the princes said to the king, We beseech you, let this …
Mark 6:23-25 And he swore to her, Whatever you shall ask of me, I will give it …
Luke 23:8-24 And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous …
laying.
Acts 23:12-15 And when it was day, certain of the Jews banded together, and bound …
Acts 26:9-11 I truly thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary …
Psalm 37:32,33 The wicked watches the righteous, and seeks to slay him…
Psalm 64:2-6 Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection …
Psalm 140:1-5 Deliver me, O LORD, from the evil man: preserve me from the violent man…
Jeremiah 18:18 Then said they, Come and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; …
John 16:3 And these things will they do to you, because they have not known …
Romans 3:8 And not rather, (as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm …
But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.
Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
them.
Acts 25:16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver …
Acts 23:30 And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, …
Acts 24:8 Commanding his accusers to come to you: by examining of whom yourself …
if.
Acts 25:18,19,25 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation …
Acts 18:14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the …
1 Samuel 24:11,12 Moreover, my father, see, yes, see the skirt of your robe in my hand: …
Psalm 7:3-5 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands…
John 18:29,30 Pilate then went out to them, and said, What accusation bring you …
And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.
And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove.
and laid.
Acts 25:24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present …
Acts 21:28 Crying out, Men of Israel, help: This is the man, that teaches all …
Acts 24:5,6,13 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition …
Ezra 4:15 That search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: …
Esther 3:8 And Haman said to king Ahasuerus…
Psalm 27:12 Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies: for false witnesses …
Psalm 35:11 False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not.
Matthew 5:11,12 Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and …
Matthew 26:60-62 But found none: yes, though many false witnesses came, yet found …
Mark 15:3,4 And the chief priests accused him of many things: but he answered nothing…
Luke 23:2,10 And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this fellow perverting …
1 Peter 4:14-16 If you be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are you; for the …
While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all.
Neither.
Acts 25:10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought …
Acts 6:13,14 And set up false witnesses, which said, This man ceases not to speak …
Acts 23:1 And Paul, earnestly beholding the council, said, Men and brothers, …
Acts 24:6,12,17-21 Who also has gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and …
Acts 28:17,21 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the chief …
Genesis 40:15 For indeed I was stolen away out of the land of the Hebrews: and …
Jeremiah 37:18 Moreover Jeremiah said to king Zedekiah, What have I offended against …
Daniel 6:22 My God has sent his angel, and has shut the lions' mouths, that they …
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …
But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
I stand. Every procurator represented the emperor in the province over which he presided; and as the seat of government was at Caesarea, Paul was before the tribunal where, as a Roman citizen, he ought to be judged.
Acts 16:37,38 But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being …
Acts 22:25-28 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that …
as thou.
Acts 25:25 But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and …
Acts 23:29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to …
Acts 26:31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, …
Acts 28:18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there …
Matthew 27:18,23,24 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him…
2 Corinthians 4:2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in …
For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
if I.
Acts 18:14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the …
Joshua 22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knows, and Israel …
1 Samuel 12:3-5 Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD, and before …
Job 31:21,38-40 If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my …
Psalm 7:3-5 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands…
no man.
Acts 16:37 But Paul said to them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being …
Acts 22:25 And as they bound him with thongs, Paul said to the centurion that …
1 Thessalonians 2:15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have …
I appeal. An appeal to the emperor was the right of a Roman citizen, and was highly respected. The Julian law condemned those magistrates, and others, as violaters of the public peace, who had put to death, tortured, scourged, imprisoned, or condemned any Roman citizen who had appealed to Caesar. This law was so sacred and imperative, that, in the persecution under Trajan, Pliny would not attempt to put to death Roman citizens, who were proved to have turned Christians, but determined to send them to Rome, probably because they had appealed.
Acts 25:10,25 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought …
Acts 26:32 Then said Agrippa to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, …
Acts 28:19 But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to …
1 Samuel 27:1 And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul…
Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
unto Caesar shalt.
Acts 25:21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, …
Acts 19:21 After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when …
Acts 23:11 And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good …
Acts 26:32 Then said Agrippa to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, …
Acts 27:1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered …
Acts 28:16 And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to …
Psalm 76:10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise you: the remainder of wrath …
Isaiah 46:10,11 Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the …
Lamentations 3:37 Who is he that said, and it comes to pass, when the Lord commands it not?
Daniel 4:35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and …
Romans 15:28,29 When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this …
Philippians 1:12-14,20 But I would you should understand, brothers…
And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
king.
Acts 25:22,23 Then Agrippa said to Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To …
Acts 26:1,27,28 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. …
to.
1 Samuel 13:10 And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering …
1 Samuel 25:14 But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, …
2 Samuel 8:10 Then Toi sent Joram his son to king David, to salute him, and to …
2 Kings 10:13 Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who …
Mark 15:18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!
And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.
To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
It is not.
Acts 25:4,5 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that …
and have.
Acts 26:1 Then Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. …
Deuteronomy 17:4 And it be told you, and you have heard of it, and inquired diligently, …
Deuteronomy 19:17,18 Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before …
Proverbs 18:13,17 He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him…
John 7:51 Does our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he does?
Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth.
Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
certain.
Acts 25:7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood …
Acts 18:15,19 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law, look …
Acts 23:29 Whom I perceived to be accused of questions of their law, but to …
superstition.
Acts 17:22,23 Then Paul stood in the middle of Mars' hill, and said, You men of …
which.
Acts 1:22 Beginning from the baptism of John, to that same day that he was …
Acts 2:32 This Jesus has God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Acts 17:31 Because he has appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world …
Acts 26:22,23 Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue to this day, witnessing …
1 Corinthians 15:3,4,14-20 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received, how …
Revelation 1:18 I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for ever …
And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
had.
Acts 25:10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought …
Acts 26:32 Then said Agrippa to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, …
2 Timothy 4:16 At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: …
hearing. or, judgment. Augustus.
Acts 27:1 And when it was determined that we should sail into Italy, they delivered …
Luke 2:1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from …
I commanded.
Acts 25:12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Have …
Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
with.
Acts 12:21 And on a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat on his throne, …
Esther 1:4 When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the honor of …
Ecclesiastes 1:2 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
Isaiah 5:14 Therefore hell has enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without …
Isaiah 14:11 Your pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of your viols: …
Ezekiel 7:24 Why I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess …
Ezekiel 30:18 At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break …
Ezekiel 32:12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause your multitude to fall, …
Ezekiel 33:28 For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength …
Daniel 4:30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have …
1 Corinthians 7:31 And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion …
James 1:11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it wither …
1 Peter 1:24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower …
1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust …
at.
Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel …
And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
committed.
Acts 23:9,29 And there arose a great cry: and the scribes that were of the Pharisees' …
Acts 26:31 And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, …
Luke 23:4,14 Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no …
John 18:38 Pilate said to him, What is truth? And when he had said this, he …
and that.
Acts 25:11,12 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, …
Augustus. The honourable title of [Sebastos,] or Augustus, that is venerable or august, which was first conferred by the senate on Octavius Caesar, was afterwards assumed by succeeding Roman emperors.
Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
