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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Acts 25 Legacy Standard Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/acts/25.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/acts/25-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">LSB</a> > Acts 25</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../acts/24.htm" title="Acts 24">◄</a> Acts 25 <a href="../acts/26.htm" title="Acts 26">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Legacy Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/nasb_/acts/25.htm" style="color:#0092f2" title="NASB">►► </a></td></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Paul Before Festus</p><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Festus then, having arrived in the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul, and they were pleading with him, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>requesting a favor against <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Paul, that he might <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>have him brought to Jerusalem (while they set an ambush to kill him on the way). <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Festus then answered that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself was about to leave shortly. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Therefore,” he said, “let the influential men among you go down there with me, and if there is anything wrong <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>about the man, let them accuse him.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And after he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And after Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him which they could not prove, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>while Paul said in his own defense, “I have committed no sin either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and to be tried before me on these <i>matters</i>?” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to <i>the</i> Jews, as you also very well know. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is <i>true</i> of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then when Festus had conferred with <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>his council, he answered, “You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go.” <p class="hdg">Festus and Agrippa Discuss Paul’s Trial</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now when several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>and greeted Festus. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And while they were spending many days there, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man who was left as a prisoner by Felix; <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>and when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to hand over any man before the accused meets his accusers face to face and has an opportunity to make his defense against the charges. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So after they had assembled here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my seat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought before me. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>When the accusers stood up, they were not bringing any charges against him for the evil deeds I was expecting, <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>but they had some points of disagreement with him about their own <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>religion and about a certain Jesus, a dead man whom Paul asserted to be alive. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And being perplexed about how to investigate <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>such matters, I was asking whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there to be tried on these matters. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But when Paul appealed to be held in custody for <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the Emperor’s decision, I ordered him to be kept in custody until I send him to Caesar.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Then Agrippa <i>said</i> to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.” <p class="hdg">Paul Before Agrippa and Bernice</p><p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So, on the next day when Agrippa came <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>together with Bernice amid great pomp, and entered the hall <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>accompanied by the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>commanders and the prominent men of the city, at the order of Festus, Paul was brought in. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all you gentlemen here present with us, you see this man about whom all the people of the Jews appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly declaring that he ought not to live any longer. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and since he himself appealed to <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>the Emperor, I decided to send him. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you <i>all</i> and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write. <span class="reftext"><a href="/acts/25-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>For it seems absurd to me in sending a prisoner, not to indicate also the charges against him.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>him</i><br><span class="fnverse">3</span> Lit <i>send for him to Jerusalem</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>in</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> A different group from that mentioned in Acts 4:15 and 24:20<br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>greeting Festus</i><br><span class="fnverse">19</span> Or <i>superstition</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>these</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>the Augustus’</i> (in this case Nero)<br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>and Bernice</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Lit <i>and with</i><br><span class="fnverse">23</span> Military leader over 1,000 soldiers<br><span class="fnverse">25</span> v 21, note 1<br><span class="fnverse">26</span> Lit <i>About whom I have nothing definite</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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