Verse 27
Acts 25:27
Literal Standard Version
27
for it seems to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not to also signify the charges against him.”
Original Language Text
greek
ἄλογον γάρ μοι δοκεῖ πέμποντα δέσμιον μὴ καὶ τὰς κατ’ αὐτοῦ αἰτίας σημᾶναι.
English Translation
For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without also indicating the reasons against him.
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Chapter 25 Context
1
Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesare...
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and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews disclosed to him the things against Paul, and...
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asking favor against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to deat...
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Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and is himself about to go forth speedi...
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“Therefore those able among you,” he says, “having come down together, if there be anything in this...
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and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the next day havi...
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and he having come, there stood around the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem—many and weighty c...
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he making defense, said, “Neither in regard to the Law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor...
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9
And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favor, answering Paul, said, “Are you willing, having gone u...
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10
And Paul said, “At the judgment seat of Caesar I am standing, where it is necessary for me to be jud...
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for if I am indeed unrighteous, and have done anything worthy of death, I do not deprecate to die; a...
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12
Then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, “To Caesar you have appealed; to Caesar you...
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13
And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea greeting Festus...
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and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul...
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about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information,...
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to whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favor of any man to die, before that...
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They, therefore, having come together—I, making no delay, on the succeeding day having sat on the ju...
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concerning whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing against him no accusation of the things...
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but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Y...
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and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, asked if he was willing to go on to Jerus...
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but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I commanded him to be kept until I m...
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And Agrippa said to Festus, “I was also intending to hear the man myself”; and he said, “Tomorrow yo...
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on the next day, therefore—on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having e...
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And Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, you see this one, about whom al...
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25
and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to...
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concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord, for what reason I brought him forth bef...
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for it seems to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not to also signify the charges against him.”