Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible
Acts 26:24-32
Paul Is Declared To Have Done Nothing Worthy Of Death and Thus To Have Conformed to the Law, but King Herod Agrippa II Closes His Heart Against His Words (26:24-32).
Paul Is Declared To Have Done Nothing Worthy Of Death and Thus To Have Conformed to the Law, but King Herod Agrippa II Closes His Heart Against His Words (26:24-32).
Verse Acts 26:24. _PAUL, THOU ART BESIDE THYSELF_] "Thou art mad, Paul!" "Thy great learning hath turned thee into a madman." As we sometimes say, _thou art cracked, and thy brain is turned_. By the...
FESTUS SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE - Amazed at the zeal of Paul. Paul doubtless evinced deep interest in the subject, and great earnestness in the delivery of his defense. THOU ART BESIDE THYSELF - Thou a...
CHAPTER 26 __ 1. The Address of the Apostle Paul (Acts 26:2). 2. The Interruption by Festus and the Appeal to the King (Acts 26:24). 3. The Verdict (Acts 26:30). The opening words of the Apostle a...
CHALLENGES AND REJOINDERS. That Paul was out of his senses was said of him at Corinth (2 Corinthians 5:13); there is nothing in what he is reported to have said on this occasion that would suggest it...
As Paul was making his defence, Festus cried out, "Paul, you are mad. Much learning has turned you to madness." But Paul said, "I am not mad, Festus, your Excellency, but I am uttering words of truth...
THE DEFENCE OF A CHANGED MAN (Acts 26:1-11)...
SPAKE FOR HIMSELF. Same as "answer for himself", verses: Acts 26:1; Acts 26:2. FESTUS, &C. To Festus the resurrection of dead persons was as much beyond the range of possibility as it is to myriads t...
Interruption by Festus. Appeal to Agrippa. Consultation and decision 24 _Festus said with a loud voice_ Probably what had last fallen from Paul seemed to him little better than lunatic ravings. The G...
ΜΕΓΆΛΗΙ ΤΗ͂Ι ΦΩΝΗ͂Ι ΦΗΣΊΝ, _says with a loud voice_. Probably what had last fallen from St Paul seemed to Festus little better than lunatic ravings. The Gospel of the Cross did appear as ‘foolishness’...
INTERRUPTION BY FESTUS. APPEAL TO AGRIPPA. CONSULTATION AND DECISION...
_PAUL PROVED HIMSELF TO BE INNOCENT ACTS 26:24-32:_ Festus reacted by saying that Paul was a mad man. Paul said he was not mad and that what he preached was true and in harmony with scripture. Paul th...
ΆΠΟΛΟΓΟΥΜΈΝΟΥ _praes. med. (dep.) part. (temp.), см._ Acts 26:1. _Gen. abs._ ΦΩΝΉ _dat. sing. от_ ΦΩΝΉ (G837) голос. _Instr. dat._ ΦΗΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΦΗΜΊ, _см._ Acts 26:1. Hist, _praes._...
DISCOURSE: 1813 PAUL’S VINDICATION OF HIS OWN MINISTRY Acts 26:24. _And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. B...
PAUL, THOU ART BESIDE THYSELF;— _Thou art distracted, much study drives thee to madness._ Perhaps Festus might know that St. Paul, in his present confinement, spent a great deal of time in reading; an...
f. Paul's defense before King Agrippa. Acts 25:13 bActs 26:32. Acts 25:13 Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus....
24. At this point in his speech, Paul was interrupted by Festus. It was a very strange speech in the ears of that dissolute heathen. It presented to him a man who from his youth had lived in strict de...
_ _ And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. AND AS HE THUS SPAKE FOR HIMSELF - `was thus making his defense...
22 It is evident that the apostle did disclose secrets which cannot be found in Moses and the prophets. One of these was the secret of the resurrecction, made known to the Corinthians (1Co_15:15). Ano...
DEFENCE BEFORE AGRIPPA 1-32. St. Paul before Agrippa. This speech, though in form a defence to the Jews, is really intended by St. Luke to be St. Paul's defence to the world—an apology for his whole...
The exclamation of Festus shows impatience and perhaps anger at the idea that an uneducated peasant like Jesus (one, moreover, who had been crucified) could have anything to teach a Roman like himself...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 26 PAUL SPEAKS TO KING AGRIPPA, 26:1-11 V1 Agrippa told Paul, ‘You may now speak for yourself.’ Paul waved his hand. He said, V2 ‘King Agrippa,...
FESTUS SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE. — The description may be noted as one of the touches of vividness indicating that the writer relates what he had actually heard. The Roman governor forgot the usual dign...
ἀπολ.: the present participle, indicating that Festus broke in upon the speech, _cf._ Acts 4:1. μεγ. τῇ φ.: raising his voice, because interrupting in surprise and astonishment, and no doubt with some...
CONVINCING HIS INQUISITORS Acts 26:22 Paul was in his element. He was delivering to kings and governors the testimony which it was the constant object of his life to give, when suddenly he was stoppe...
Agrippa intimated to Paul that he might speak, and the apostle spent a moment in introductory words, and then uttered his great apologia, in which a twofold purpose is evident, first, his own defense,...
Agrippa's Response Festus interrupted with a loud declaration that Paul had gone crazy from too much learning. It seems Paul's failure to defend himself, instead focussing on converting his judges, wa...
(8) And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. (8) The wisdom of God is madness to fools, yet nonetheless we mus...
It is not surprising that Festus should have taken St. Paul for a madman. The resurrection of the dead, remission of sins, receiving baptism, and faith, announcing light to the nations, &c. were subje...
And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. (25) But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but I speak forth t...
The closing Chapter s from 21 to the end of the book are devoted to an episode full of interest and profit Paul's course from Jerusalem to Rome. And here we find ourselves in an atmosphere considerabl...
− 24._Festus said with a loud voice. _This outcry which Festus doth make doth show how much the truth of God prevaileth with the reprobate; to wit, though it be never so plain and evident, yet is it t...
Paul's address to king Agrippa furnishes us with the most complete picture of the entire position of the apostle, as he himself looked at it when his long service and the light of the Holy Ghost illum...
AND AS HE THUS SPAKE FOR HIMSELF,.... Asserting the integrity and innocence of his past life and conversation, in proof of which he appealed to the Jews themselves; setting forth the prejudices to the...
And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. Ver. 24. _Much learning hath made thee mad_] _Core diminuit harem, _...
_And as he thus spake for himself_ And was making his defence; _Festus_ Astonished, it seems, to hear him represent this despised gospel of Jesus of Nazareth as a matter of such high and universal con...
When a man treats the truths of the Bible as realities, and speaks and acts as if he expected to see their fulfilment, those who regard these truths as fables often think and speak of him as deranged....
Paul's foremost wish:...
AND AS HE THUS SPAKE FOR HIMSELF, FESTUS SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE, PAUL, THOU ART BESIDE THY SELF; MUCH LEARNING DOTH MAKE THEE MAD....
At Agrippa's invitation to him to speak, Paul is fully prepared. He expresses his happiness at being privileged to answer for himself to the king, especially because he knew Agrippa to be an expert in...
NOW AS HE THUS MADE HIS DEFENSE, FESTUS SAID WITH A LOUD VOICE, " PAUL, YOU ARE BESIDE YOURSELF! MUCH LEARNING IS DRIVING YOU MAD! " 1. Festus tells Paul that he is mad, crazy, beside himself, and un...
"And as he thus made his defense, Festus saith with. loud voice, Paul, thou art mad; thy much learning is turning thee mad"As he thus made his defense" "The present participle here indicates that Fest...
24-32 It becomes us, on all occasions, to speak the words of truth and soberness, and then we need not be troubled at the unjust censures of men. Active and laborious followers of the gospel often ha...
THOU ART BESIDE THYSELF; this was the opinion of Festus concerning Paul, and such is the opinion of carnal and worldly men concerning such as are truly godly; as the prophet who came to Jehu was count...
24. At this point in his speech, Paul was interrupted by Festus. It was a very strange speech in the ears of that dissolute heathen. It presented to him a man who from his youth had lived in strict de...
Acts 26:24 Now G1161 he G846 thus G5023 defense G626 (G5740) Festus G5347 said G5346 (G5713) loud...
_The Procurator Festus interrupts Paul The Apostle's Reply to Festus, and Appeal to AgrippaThe Dialogue between Agrippa and Paul The King and Governor decide that, had not the Prisoner appealed to Cæs...
AS HE THUS MADE HIS DEFENCE (ταυτα αυτου απολογουμενου). Genitive absolute again with present middle participle. Paul was still speaking when Festus interrupted him in great excitement.WITH A LOUD...
Acts 26 St. Paul's Defence before Agrippa. Observe: I. What is the central truth of the Christian system. It is a very suggestive fact that Festus had got hold of the kernel of the whole subject, as...
Three times we have in Holy Writ a graphic report of the conversion of Paul. This may be accounted for partly from its being one of the most remarkable events of early sacred history, Paul having had...
Acts 26:1. _Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself:_ I do not suppose Agrippa imagined that Paul would take...
CONTENTS: Paul's defense before Agrippa. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, Paul, Agrippa, Satan, Festus, Bernice, Caesar. CONCLUSION: When God's servant is given a chance to speak for himself, it is well if h...
Acts 26:1. _Then Paul stretched forth the hand,_ the usual signal to gain attention; it indicates presence of mind in the speaker, and that his auditory is large. Though the notice was short, the cour...
YOU ARE MAD, PAUL! Notice it is Festus, a Gentile, who breaks in on Paul and shouts that only a deranged brain could imagine such things, Compare this outburst with the reaction of the Athenians (Acts...
21-30. REPENT OF THEIR SINS AND TURN TO GOD. Compare Acts 3:19 and note. Paul preached a NEW LIFE!!!...
_Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself._ PAUL BEFORE AGRIPPA Here is all that Christianity ever asked for: an opportunity to speak for itself; and its answer is the one...
_And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself._ THE EFFECTS OF PAUL’S DEFENCE ON FESTUS I. The charge of Festus. He did not denounce Paul as a hypoc...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 26:24. AS HE THUS SPAKE FOR HIMSELF.—Lit., _he speaking these things in his defence_—ταῦτα, these things, being the words just uttered about the resurrection, rather than the e...
EXPOSITION ACTS 26:1 And for _then, _A.V.; _his _for _the, _A.V.; _made his _defense_ _for _answered for himself, _A.V. AGRIPPA SAID. It was by the courtesy of Festus that Agrippa thus took the chief...
Let's open our Bibles to the twenty-sixth chapter of Acts. Paul was rescued by Lysias, the captain of the Roman guard from the mob that was attempting to beat him to death in Jerusalem on the temple m...
1 Corinthians 1:23; 1 Corinthians 2:13; 1 Corinthians 2:14; 1 Corinthians 4:10;...
Much learning doth make thee mad [τ α π ο λ λ α σ ε γ ρ α μ μ α τ α ε ι ς μ α ν ι α ν π ε ρ ι τ ρ ε π ε ι]. The A. V. omits the article with much learning : "the much knowledge" with which thou art bu...
Festus said, Paul, thou art beside thyself — To talk of men's rising from the dead! And of a Jew's enlightening not only his own nation, but tho polite and learned Greeks and Romans! Nay, Festus, it i...
Hitherto Festus had heard the apostle with great patience, but now he interrupts him, and tells him, he talks like. man that was crazed. Carnal minds pass very uncharitable censures upon spiritual per...