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AND DESIRED FAVOUR AGAINST HIM - Desired the favor of Festus, that
they might accomplish their wicked purpose on Paul.
WOULD SEND FOR HIM TO JERUSALEM - Probably under a pretence that he
might be tri...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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I APPEAL TO CAESAR (Acts 25:1-12)...
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AND DESIRED. Asking. Greek. _aiteo_. App-134.
FAVOUR. Greek. _charis._ App-184.
SEND FOR. Greek. _metapempo._ See Acts 10:5 and App-174.
LAYING WAIT. Literally making. plot (Greek. _enedra,_ as in...
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_and desired favour against him_ i.e. they begged that their case
might have some special consideration. They were many and rich; the
accused man was alone and an obscure person, and it was much easie...
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ΑἸΤΟΎΜΕΝΟΙ ΧΆΡΙΝ ΚΑΤ' ΑΥ̓ΤΟΥ͂, _desiring
favour against him_, i.e. they begged that their case might have some
special consideration. They were many and rich; the accused man was
alone and an obscure...
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Acts 25:1-12. ARRIVAL OF FESTUS. PAUL’S CAUSE HEARD BEFORE HIM. PAUL
APPEALS TO THE EMPEROR...
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_THE JEWS DESIRED TO KILL PAUL ACTS 25:1-6:_ Nero, the Roman emperor,
made Festus governor of Judea. Judea was a Roman province._ _ Three
days after Festus became governor, he traveled from Caesarea t...
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AND DESIRED FAVOUR,— That is, _desired this favour._ Instead of
_laying wait,_ &c. Dr. Doddridge reads and paraphrases the passage
thus: _"Laying an ambush_ of desperate wretches for him, who they kne...
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d.
Festus visits Jerusalem. Acts 25:1-6 a.
Acts 25:1
Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went
up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
Acts 25:2
And the chief priests and the p...
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See notes on verse 1...
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And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to
Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
And desired favour (entreating it as a boon), against him. If we take
the word "favour" he...
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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...
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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...
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αἰτουμ., _cf._ Acts 25:15. “Postulantes gratiam non
justitiam,” Corn à Lapide. ἐνέδραν ποιοῦντες, not
ποιήσοντες, they were making and contriving the ambush
_already_ (Alford): priests and elders were...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he
ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem. (2) Then the high priest and the
chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him, (3)...
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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...
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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...
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AND DESIRED FAVOUR AGAINST HIM,.... Paul; they asked what would be a
favour to them, and a prejudice to him: or "of him", that is, of
Festus; they asked a favour of him, and desired it as such, as wha...
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And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to
Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
Ver. 3. _Desired favour_] Or a good turn, χαριν : such was their
impudence....
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_When Festus was come into the province_ And had taken possession of
the government; _after three days he ascended from Cesarea_ The usual
residence of the Roman governors; _to Jerusalem_ The capital...
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DESIRED FAVOR; desired that Festus would favor them by sending for
Paul, so that they might kill him....
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PAUL APPEALS TO CAESAR. Acts 25:1
The hearing before Festus arranged:...
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AND DESIRED FAVOR AGAINST HIM, THAT HE WOULD SEND FOR HIM TO
JERUSALEM, LAYING WAIT IN THE WAY TO KILL HIM....
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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...
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ASKING A FAVOR AGAINST HIM, THAT HE WOULD SUMMON HIM TO JERUSALEM -
WHILE THEY LAY IN AMBUSH ALONG THE ROAD TO KILL HIM.
1. These Jewish leaders asked that Festus send Paul back to Jerusalem
to be tr...
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"At the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way" "The
zealous forty who had been frustrated in an earlier plot to
assassinate Paul or others who emulated their zeal might find. better
oppo...
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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...
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DESIRED FAVOUR; though it seems to have been but justice, that they
might be allowed to try Paul for such crimes as were within their
cognizance; yet that they might the more easily obtain their desir...
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Acts 25:3 asking G154 (G5734) favor G5485 against G2596 him G846 that
G3704 summon G3343 (G5667) him...
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THE JEWS PLAN TO AMBUSH PAUL, AN ATTEMPT WHICH IS THWARTED BY FESTUS'
INSISTENCE ON TRYING HIM IN CAESAREA (25:1-5).
Festus' first aim on arrival in office was to put things to rights.
The result was...
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‘Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days
went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. And the chief priests and the
principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they besou...
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Acts 25:3. AND DESIRED FAVOUR AGAINST HIM, THAT HE WOULD SEND FOR HIM
UNTO JERUSALEM. In Acts 25:15-16, Festus relates the particulars of
this request of the Jews to King Agrippa. From the detailed ac...
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ASKING FAVOUR AGAINST HIM
(αιτουμενο χαριν κατ' αυτου). A favour to
themselves (middle voice), not to Paul, but "against" (κατ', down,
against) him.THAT HE WOULD SEND FOR
(οπως μεταπεμψητα). First...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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THREE DAYS AFTER FESTUS ARRIVED. He was the new governor of Judea. He
went to Jerusalem to confer with the Jewish leaders. BROUGHT THEIR
CHARGES. The Jewish leaders wanted Paul transferred to Jerusale...
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_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....
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_CRITICAL REMARKS_
Acts 25:1. HAVING COME INTO THE PROVINCE, or _having entered upon his
province—i.e._, his procuratorship (see on Acts 23:18)—Festus,
after three days, ASCENDED, or _went up_ (contra...
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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...
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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...
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1 Samuel 23:19; Acts 23:12; Acts 26:9; Acts 9:2; Jeremiah 18:18;...
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Laying wait [ε ν ε δ ρ α ν π ο ι ο υ ν τ ε ς]. Lit.,
making or arranging an ambush....