Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 25:15
Desiring judgment against him — As upon a previous conviction, which they falsely pretended.
Desiring judgment against him — As upon a previous conviction, which they falsely pretended.
Verse Acts 25:15. _DESIRING TO HAVE JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM._] Instead of δικην, _judgment_, καταδικην, _condemnation, sentence of death_, is the reading of ABC, and several others, which is probably ge...
ABOUT WHOM ... - See Acts 25:1. TO HAVE JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM - To have him condemned....
CHAPTER 25 _ 1. Festus and the Jews. Paul appeals to Caesar (Acts 25:1)._ 2. King Agrippa visits Festus (Acts 25:13). 3. Paul brought before the King (Acts 25:23). The new governor, Festus, had arr...
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...
When some days had elapsed, Agrippa, the king, and Bernice came to Caesarea to welcome Festus. As they were staying there for some time, Festus referred Paul's case to the king. "There is a man", he s...
I APPEAL TO CAESAR (Acts 25:1-12)...
ABOUT. concerning. Greek. _peri_. App-104. WAS. was come. AT. to. Greek. _eis_. App-104. ELDERS. App-189. DESIRING TO HAV _e_. asking for. Greek. _aiteo._ App-134. JUDGMENT. Greek. _dike_. App-17...
_the chief priests_ See note on Acts 25:2. _desiring to have judgment against him_ The older MSS. give a stronger word for "judgment" than the _Text. Recept_. It implies that they held there could be...
FESTUS CONSULTS KING AGRIPPA ABOUT HIS PRISONER. AGRIPPA WISHES TO HEAR PAUL’S DEFENCE...
ΟἹ�, _the chief priests_. See above on Acts 25:2, and on ἐμφανίζω also. ΚΑΤΑΔΊΚΗΝ, _judgment_, but always with the sense of adverse judgment. Hence Rev. Ver. ‘sentence.’ The word implies that those w...
_KING AGRIPPA LEARNED ABOUT PAUL ACTS 25:13-21:_ King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to visit Festus. After they had been there for several days Festus told King Agrippa about the charges agains...
ΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΟΥ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G1096) становиться, быть. _Gen. abs._ ΈΝΕΦΆΝΙΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act., см._ Acts 25:2. ΑΙΤΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ _praes. med._ (_indir. med._ "для себя") _part., см...
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....
See notes on verse 14...
ABOUT WHOM, WHEN I WAS AT JERUSALEM, THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS OF THE JEWS INFORMED ME, DESIRING TO HAVE JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM. _ About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the...
10 Paul's reply is a marvelous compendium of his defense and his rights as a Roman citizen. Festus had supreme criminal jurisdiction in Judea over all except Roman citizens. Even these, should they be...
GOOD NEWS FOR EVERYONE ACTS _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 25 PAUL *APPEALS TO THE *EMPEROR, 25:1-12 V1 Three days after Festus arrived in *Judea, he went from Caesarea to *Jerusalem. V2 There, the chie...
ἀρχ. καὶ οἱ πρεσβ., see on Acts 25:2. ἐνεφάνισαν, see Acts 25:21. δίκην, see critical note. If we read καταδίκην = “sentence,” R.V., _i.e._, of condemnation; LXX, Symm., Psalms 89:3, Wis 12:27; so in...
SEEKING CHARGES AGAINST HIS PRISONER Acts 25:13 Mark the difference with which these two men regarded our Lord. To the one, He was the supreme object of his affection and his life; to the other, He w...
The Jews besought Festus to bring Paul to Jerusalem for trial. This, however, he refused to do. When arraigned before him, Paul again made use of his rights as a Roman citizen, and definitely appealed...
Festus Introduces Paul and the Jews' Case Against Him The King Agrippa Luke says came to greet Festus is actually Herod Agrippa II. His father was Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12:1-23) and his great-grandfat...
PAUL'S TRIAL BEFORE KING AGRIPPA. (_ACTS 25:13 TO ACTS 26:32_) This, by far the greatest prosecution of all, had no reference to the immediate destiny of Paul, _i. e_., they are no longer trying for...
And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus. (14) And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain...
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...
The dignity of Paul's manner before all these governors is perfect. He addresses himself to the conscience with a forgetfulness of self that shewed a man in whom communion with God, and the sense of h...
ABOUT WHOM, WHEN I WAS AT JERUSALEM,.... Quickly after he came to his government: THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND ELDERS OF THE JEWS INFORMED ME; brought an accusation to him, exhibited to him charges against...
About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed _me_, desiring _to have_ judgment against him. Ver. 15. _To have judgment against him_] _Damnationem, _ sait...
_When they had been there many days_ Among other subjects of discourse which occurred, _Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king_ For, as the crime of which he was accused related wholly to the Jewi...
ABOUT WHOM, WHEN I WAS AT JERUSALEM, THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS OF THE JEWS INFORMED ME, DESIRING TO HAVE JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM....
AGRIPPA AND BERNICE IN CAESAREA. Festus lays the matter before Agrippa:...
Festus was a different character, a typical Roman, materialistic and matter-of-fact, not a debased type, but skeptical as to anything spiritual. Only three days after taking office he visited Jerusale...
ABOUT WHOM THE CHIEF PRIESTS AND THE ELDERS OF THE JEWS INFORMED ME, WHEN I WAS IN JERUSALEM, ASKING FOR A JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM. 16 To then I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver a...
Acts 25:14-15 Felix had left this prisoner and when Festus arrived in Jerusalem the Jews immediately wanted Paul to be bought to Jerusalem to stand trial....
13-27 Agrippa had the government of Galilee. How many unjust and hasty judgments the Roman maxim, ver. Acts 25:16, condemn! This heathen, guided only by the light of nature, followed law and custom e...
OLBGrk; To wit, judgment of death upon Paul, that he might be sentenced according to the crimes they had laid against him; dikh being put for katadikh. Neither do they at all mind that St. Paul's case...
Acts 25:15 about G4012 whom G3739 priests G749 and G2532 elders G4245 Jews G2453 informed G1718 (G5656) when...
‘Saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix, about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for sentence against him. To whom I ans...
FESTUS CALLS ON AGRIPPA'S ASSISTANCE IN FORMULATING A CASE AND PAUL GIVES HIS TESTIMONY TO THEM BOTH (25:13-26:23). Festus now condemns himself by admitting that he has no charge to bring against Pau...
Acts 25:15. ABOUT WHOM THE CHIEF PRIESTS ... INFORMED ME, DESIRING TO HAVE JUDGMENT AGAINST HIM. The Greek word translated ‘judgment' (δι ́ κην), in the most trustworthy MSS. is the stronger though un...
INFORMED (ενεφανισαν). Same word as in Acts 23:15; Acts 23:22; Acts 25:2 which see.ASKING FOR SENTENCE AGAINST HIM (αιτουμενο κατ' αυτου καταδικην). Only N.T. example of this old word (penalty, fi...
Acts 25:1. _Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem._ Porcius Festus had been appointed governor in the place of Felix, who had left Paul a...
CONTENTS: Paul before Festus. His appeal to Caesar. CHARACTERS: Jesus, Festus, high priest, Paul, Caesar, Agrippa, Bernice. CONCLUSION: It is nothing for the most excellent ones of the earth to have...
Acts 25:1. _When Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended to Jerusalem,_ the metropolis of his government. The Romans evidently paid great attention to Palestine, because they r...
KING AGRIPPA AND BERNICE. This is Herod Agrippa II and his sister Bernice. Drusilla, the wife of Festus, was also their sister. This man became king when his father, Herod Agrippa I died (Acts 12:23)....
_And after certain days King Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea._ AGRIPPA AND BERNICE Each of the characters thus brought on the scene has a somewhat memorable history. 1. The former closes the...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 25:13. AFTER CERTAIN DAYS, or _certain days having gone by_; how many is unknown. AGRIPPA THE KING was Herod Agrippa II., the son of Agrippa I., mentioned in Acts 12:1; Acts 12...
EXPOSTION ACTS 25:1 _Foetus therefore having come _for _now when Foetus was come, _A.V.; _went up _for _he ascended, _A.V.; _to Jerusalem from Casarea _for _from Caesarea to Jerusalem, _A.V. THE PROV...
Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem (Acts 25:1). Ascended, and you always go up to Jerusalem, you never go down to Jerusalem. No one eve...
Acts 25:1; Esther 3:9; Luke 18:3; Luke 23:23...