Verse 17
Acts 25:17
World English Bible, British Edition
17
When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on
the next day sat on the judgement seat and commanded the man to be brought.
Original Language Text
greek
συνελθόντων ⸀οὖν ἐνθάδε ἀναβολὴν μηδεμίαν ποιησάμενος τῇ ἑξῆς καθίσας ἐπὶ τοῦ βήματος ἐκέλευσα ἀχθῆναι τὸν ἄνδρα·
English Translation
Therefore, having gathered here, without making any delay, I sat down upon the platform and ordered the man to be brought forward.
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Chapter 25 Context
1
Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up
to Jerusalem from Caesarea...
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2
Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against
Paul, and they begged hi...
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3
asking a favour against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting
to kill him on the way.
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4
However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea,
and that he himself was abo...
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5
“Let them therefore”, he said, “that are in power amongst you go down
with me, and if there is anyth...
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6
When he had stayed amongst them more than ten days, he went down
to Caesarea, and on the next day he...
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7
When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around
him, bringing against him m...
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8
while he said in his defence, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor
against the temple, nor agai...
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9
But Festus, desiring to gain favour with the Jews, answered Paul
and said, “Are you willing to go up...
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10
But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgement seat,
where I ought to be tried. I have done...
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11
For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death,
I don’t refuse to die; but if...
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12
Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered,
“You have appealed to Caesar. To Caes...
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13
Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived
at Caesarea and greeted Festus.
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14
As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king,
saying, “There is a certain m...
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15
about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders
of the Jews informed me, askin...
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16
I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up
any man to destruction before the...
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17
When therefore they had come together here, I didn’t delay, but on
the next day sat on the judgement...
18
When the accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of
such things as I supposed;
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19
but had certain questions against him about their own religion and
about one Yashua (Jesus), who was...
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20
Being perplexed how to enquire concerning these things, I asked whether
he was willing to go to Jeru...
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21
But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor,
I commanded him to be kept un...
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22
Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.”
“Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall...
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23
So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great
pomp, and they had entered into the...
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24
Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us,
you see this man about whom al...
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25
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and
as he himself appealed to the em...
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26
of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have
brought him out before you, an...
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27
For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also
specify the charges against him....
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