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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//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 GNT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="//biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">GNT</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 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">Good News Translation</div><div class="chap"><h3 class="s">Paul Appeals to the Emperor</h3><p class="par"><span class="v44_25_1"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.1" class="v44_25_1">1</span>Three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went from Caesarea to Jerusalem, </span><span class="v44_25_2"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.2" class="v44_25_2">2</span>where the chief priests and the Jewish leaders brought their charges against Paul. They begged Festus </span><span class="v44_25_3"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.3" class="v44_25_3">3</span>to do them the favor of having Paul come to Jerusalem, for they had made a plot to kill him on the way. </span><span class="v44_25_4"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.4" class="v44_25_4">4</span>Festus answered, “Paul is being kept a prisoner in Caesarea, and I myself will be going back there soon. </span><span class="v44_25_5"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.5" class="v44_25_5">5</span>Let your leaders go to Caesarea with me and accuse the man if he has done anything wrong.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_25_6"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.6" class="v44_25_6">6</span>Festus spent another eight or ten days with them and then went to Caesarea. On the next day he sat down in the judgment court and ordered Paul to be brought in. </span><span class="v44_25_7"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.7" class="v44_25_7">7</span>When Paul arrived, the Jews who had come from Jerusalem stood around him and started making many serious charges against him, which they were not able to prove. </span><span class="v44_25_8"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.8" class="v44_25_8">8</span>But Paul defended himself: “I have done nothing wrong against the Law of the Jews or against the Temple or against the Roman Emperor.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_25_9"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.9" class="v44_25_9">9</span>But Festus wanted to gain favor with the Jews, so he asked Paul, “Would you be willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried on these charges before me there?”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_25_10"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.10" class="v44_25_10">10</span>Paul said, “I am standing before the Emperor's own judgment court, where I should be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you yourself well know. </span><span class="v44_25_11"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.11" class="v44_25_11">11</span>If I have broken the law and done something for which I deserve the death penalty, I do not ask to escape it. But if there is no truth in the charges they bring against me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to the Emperor.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_25_12"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.12" class="v44_25_12">12</span>Then Festus, after conferring with his advisers, answered, “You have appealed to the Emperor, so to the Emperor you will go.”</span></p><h3 class="s">Paul before Agrippa and Bernice</h3><p class="par"><span class="v44_25_13"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.13" class="v44_25_13">13</span>Some time later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a visit of welcome to Festus. </span><span class="v44_25_14"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.14" class="v44_25_14">14</span>After they had been there several days, Festus explained Paul's situation to the king: “There is a man here who was left a prisoner by Felix; </span><span class="v44_25_15"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.15" class="v44_25_15">15</span>and when I went to Jerusalem, the Jewish chief priests and elders brought charges against him and asked me to condemn him. </span><span class="v44_25_16"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.16" class="v44_25_16">16</span>But I told them that we Romans are not in the habit of handing over any who are accused of a crime before they have met their accusers face-to-face and have had the chance of defending themselves against the accusation. </span><span class="v44_25_17"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.17" class="v44_25_17">17</span>When they came here, then, I lost no time, but on the very next day I sat in the judgment court and ordered the man to be brought in. </span><span class="v44_25_18"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.18" class="v44_25_18">18</span>His opponents stood up, but they did not accuse him of any of the evil crimes that I thought they would. </span><span class="v44_25_19"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.19" class="v44_25_19">19</span>All they had were some arguments with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus, who has died; but Paul claims that he is alive. </span><span class="v44_25_20"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.20" class="v44_25_20">20</span>I was undecided about how I could get information on these matters, so I asked Paul if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges. </span><span class="v44_25_21"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.21" class="v44_25_21">21</span>But Paul appealed; he asked to be kept under guard and to let the Emperor decide his case. So I gave orders for him to be kept under guard until I could send him to the Emperor.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_25_22"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.22" class="v44_25_22">22</span>Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear this man myself.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_25_22">“You will hear him tomorrow,” Festus answered.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v44_25_23"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.23" class="v44_25_23">23</span>The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and ceremony and entered the audience hall with the military chiefs and the leading men of the city. Festus gave the order, and Paul was brought in. </span><span class="v44_25_24"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.24" class="v44_25_24">24</span>Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are here with us: You see this man against whom all the Jewish people, both here and in Jerusalem, have brought complaints to me. They scream that he should not live any longer. </span><span class="v44_25_25"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.25" class="v44_25_25">25</span>But I could not find that he had done anything for which he deserved the death sentence. And since he himself made an appeal to the Emperor, I have decided to send him. </span><span class="v44_25_26"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.26" class="v44_25_26">26</span>But I have nothing definite about him to write to the Emperor. So I have brought him here before you—and especially before you, King Agrippa!—so that, after investigating his case, I may have something to write. </span><span class="v44_25_27"><span class="reftext" id="Acts.25.27" class="v44_25_27">27</span>For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him.”</span></p></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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