Acts 25:24

βασιλεῦ, see above on p. 495. συμπαρόντες : only here in N.T., cf. Wis 9:10, Tob 12:12 [395] [396]. πᾶν τὸ πλ.: the statement is not in the least inconsistent with Acts 25:2; Acts 25:7; Acts 25:15. In Jerusalem at all events it is easily intelligible that a noisy crowd would second the actual accusers, cf. Acts 17:5-6, while in connection with Cæsarea we know from the latter years of the government of Felix how bitter the Jews were against the Gentiles, and how natural it would be for them to oppose the Apostle of the Gentiles, Jos., B. J., ii., 13, 7; Ant., xx., 8, 7. ἐνέτυχόν μοι : “made suit to me,” R.V., Wis 8:20, 3Ma 6:37, so in Plut., Pomp., 55, cf. Polyc., Martyr., xvii., 2, with dative only; it is used also of those making complaint before some authority, 1Ma 8:32; 1Ma 10:61; 1Ma 11:35, 2Ma 4:36, see Westcott on Hebrews 7:25. The verb with the exception of Hebrews 7:25 and text is only found in Romans 8:27; Romans 8:34; Romans 11:2, in each place of making supplication to God. For its use cf. ἔντευξις and ἐντυχία, of making request to one in authority, cf. Deissmann, Bibelstudien, i., pp. 117, 118, 143, 144, e.g., the frequent formula on the papyri, ἔντευξις εἰς τὸ τοῦ βασιλέως ὄνομα. Clemen regards the whole speech of Festus to Agrippa, Acts 25:24-27, as an interpolation on account of the repetition of Acts 25:21 in Acts 25:25, and of the contradiction supposed to exist between Acts 25:27; Acts 25:19. But Jüngst differs from him with regard to the latter point, and although admitting the hand of a reviser freely in the first speech, and also in Acts 25:14-21, he hesitates to define the revision too exactly in the latter speech.

[395] Codex Alexandrinus (sæc. v.), at the British Museum, published in photographic facsimile by Sir E. M. Thompson (1879).

[396] Codex Vaticanus (sæc. iv.), published in photographic facsimile in 1889 under the care of the Abbate Cozza-Luzi.