Acts 25:13-22

Agrippa and Bernice: Interest of Agrippa in Paul. Agrippa was seventeen years old when his father died (Acts 12:23). He obtained from Claudius and Nero certain territories in the N. of Palestine, but he had little power of action. He built largely at Cæ sarea Philippi and at Berytus (Aleppo), and was not much interested in religious matters. Bernice was his sister, the sister also of Drusilla. After living many years with her brother she excited the admiration of Titus and lived with him at Rome. The private conversation of Festus and Agrippa (Acts 25:14) was probably given by the writer of the source, who was acquainted with the principles of Roman law, and made it up very correctly. Festus gives his view of the case publicly in Acts 25:23. In Acts 25:3 the Jews asked that Paul might be sent to Jerusalem; here, that sentence of condemnation might be given against him. The maxim of Acts 25:16 is to be found in the Roman Digests, xlviii. 171. Festus-' account (Acts 25:17 ff.) shows that there was no delay on his part; the charges which he reports are not those against which Paul protests in Acts 25:8 but rather those of the Sanhedrin meeting in Acts 23:1.

Acts 25:20. Translate: and as I knew little about such disputes.

Acts 25:21. Note mg.