Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Acts 25:7
Bringing many accusations — When many accusations are heaped together, frequently not one of them is true.
Bringing many accusations — When many accusations are heaped together, frequently not one of them is true.
Verse Acts 25:7. _THE JEWS - LAID MANY AND GRIEVOUS COMPLAINTS AGAINST_ _Paul_] As they must have perceived that the Roman governors would not intermeddle with questions of their law, c., they no dou...
GRIEVOUS COMPLAINTS - Heavy accusations. Doubtless the same with which they had charged him before Felix, Acts 24:5. Compare Acts 25:19. WHICH THEY COULD NOT PROVE - Acts 24:1
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...
TRIAL BEFORE FESTUS. Of Festus little is known, but nothing unfavourable. Here he appears as a conscientious magistrate, who keeps everyone in his proper place and does not allow the course of justice...
Three days after he had entered into his province, Festus went up to Jerusalem. The chief priests and the chief men of the Jews laid information before him against Paul. They urged him, asking a favou...
I APPEAL TO CAESAR (Acts 25:1-12)...
CAME. had come. STOOD ROUND ABOUT. Greek. _periistimi._ Only here; Joh 11:42. 2 Timothy 2:16; Titus 3:9. AND LAID, &C. The texts read, "bringing against him". COMPLAINTS. charges. Greek. _aitiama_....
_the Jews which came_, &c. Better, with _Rev. Ver._, "which had come, &c." _stood round about_ The best authorities give "_round about_ HIM." They were eager to set upon him, and so compassed him on...
κατὰ τοῦ Παύλου omitted with אABC. Not represented in _Vulg_. 7. ΠΕΡΙΈΣΤΗΣΑΝ ΑΥ̓ΤῸΝ ΟἹ … Κ.Τ.Λ., _the Jews which had come down from Jerusalem stood round about him_. They were eager to set upon him a...
Acts 25:1-12. ARRIVAL OF FESTUS. PAUL’S CAUSE HEARD BEFORE HIM. PAUL APPEALS TO THE EMPEROR...
_PAUL APPEALED TO CAESAR ACTS 25:7-12:_ As soon as Paul was brought into the court the Jewish leaders crowded around him and laid many and grievous complaints against him. These were complaints which...
ΠΑΡΑΓΕΝΟΜΈΝΟΥ _aor. med. (dep.) part. (temp.) от_ ΠΑΡΑΓΊΝΟΜΑΙ (G3854) прибывать, приходить, присутствовать. _Gen. abs._ ΠΕΡΙΈΣΤΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΕΡΊΊΣΤΗΜΙ (G4026) стоять вокруг, ΚΑΤΑΒΕΒΗΚΌΤΕ...
e. Paul's trial, defence and appeal to Caesar. Acts 25:6 b - Acts 25:12. Acts 25:6 b he went down unto Caesarea; and on the morrow he sat on the judgment-seat, and commanded Paul to be brought....
See notes on verse 6...
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 when he was come, the Jews which c...
17 To a man like Felix the accusation that Paul belonged to the sect of the Nazarenes would have little in it to incriminate him. And Paul, with marvelous wisdom, answers all that might be said agains...
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...
MANY AND GRIEVOUS COMPLAINTS. — These were, we may well believe, of the same nature as those on which Tertullus had harangued. The line of St. Paul’s defence indicates the three counts of the indictme...
περιέστησαν : if we add αὐτόν, see critical note, “stood round about him,” _i.e._, Paul, R.V., “periculum intentantes,” Bengel. (_Cf._ John 11:42, Jdt 5:22, omit 1.) πολλὰ καὶ βαρέα : “many and (indee...
GRANTING APPEAL TO CAESAR Acts 25:1 How inveterately must these Jews have hated Paul, when after two years they still thirsted for his blood! It would never have done for the trial to be transferred...
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...
Paul's Appeal to Caesar After only three days in the province, Porcius Festus went to Jerusalem. There, the high priest and some of the members of the Sanhedrin approached him about bringing Paul up t...
And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which (a) they could not prove. (a) They could not prove them cert...
PAUL'S APPEAL TO CAESAR 1-12. Festus, the successor of Felix in the governorship of Judea, like Lysias, the kiliarch of Jerusalem, shows up a very beautiful character in all of his dealings with Paul,...
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. (7) And when he was come, the Jews which...
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...
− 7._Many and grievous crimes. _So long as Paul lived under the law, his integrity was well known and famous. Again, when he was converted to Christ, he was a singular pattern of innocence. Yet we see...
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...
AND WHEN HE WAS COME,.... Into court: THE JEWS WHICH CAME DOWN FROM JERUSALEM; along with Festus, perhaps the high priest with the elders, and Tertullus the orator, as before: STOOD ROUND ABOUT; eit...
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. Ver. 7. _Laid many and grievous compla...
_And when he had tarried there more than ten days_ A short time for a new governor to stay at such a city as Jerusalem; _he went down to Cesarea_ As he had said, several of the Jews attending him, as...
Persecutors of Christians, though high in ecclesiastical or political office, will often make statements which they cannot prove, which are not true, and the falsehood and malignity of which are so ma...
The beginning of the trial:...
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....
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...
WHEN HE HAD COME, THE JEWS WHO HAD COME DOWN FROM JERUSALEM STOOD ABOUT AND LAID MANY SERIOUS COMPLAINTS AGAINST PAUL, WHICH THEY COULD NOT PROVE. 1. There were many Jews in the court room. They had...
The Jews threw out many charges and accusations but they could not prove any of them. These accusations were probably very similar to the charges presented in chapter 24 by Tertullus....
1-12 See how restless malice is. Persecutors deem it a peculiar favour to have their malice gratified. Preaching Christ, the end of the law, was no offence against the law. In suffering times the pru...
WHEN HE WAS COME; the judge sat, and the prisoner brought. THE JEWS WHICH CAME DOWN FROM JERUSALEM; his accusers, which were many, and came with a full cry against him, STOOD ROUND ABOUT him, or about...
Acts 25:7 G1161 he G846 come G3854 (G5637) Jews G2453 down G2597 (G5761) from G575 Jerusalem...
‘And when he was come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood round about him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,' Present also in the court were the J...
PAUL APPEARS BEFORE FESTUS AND IS COMPELLED TO APPEAL TO CAESAR. TO ROME HE WILL GO (25:6-12)....
Acts 25:7. 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. As Festus had signified (see...
WHEN HE WAS COME (παραγενομενου αυτου). Genitive absolute of common verb παραγινομα (cf. Acts 24:24).WHICH HAD COME DOWN (ο καταβεβηκοτες). Perfect active participle of καταβαινω. They had come do...
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...
WHEN PAUL ARRIVED. The accused had to face his accusers. This was Roman law. MANY SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST HIM. The Jewish leaders had probably come along with Festus back to Caesarea. Their accusations...
_Now when Festus was come into the province._ THE CHRISTIAN IN REFERENCE TO CHANGES OF GOVERNMENT Kings may die and governors be changed, but Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever....
_The Jews laid many and grievous complaints against Paul._ THE NOBLE FIRMNESS OF THE CHRISTIAN IN THE MAINTENANCE OF HIS RIGHTS It is different-- I. From the effrontery of the hypocrite; for the Ch...
_CRITICAL REMARKS_ Acts 25:6. MORE THAN TEN DAYS.—According to the most reliable authorities this should be _not more than eight or ten days_. Acts 25:7. The MANY AND GRIEVOUS COMPLAINTS, or charges,...
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...
1 Peter 4:14; Acts 21:28; Acts 24:13; Acts 24:5; Acts 24:6;...