Chapter 25:
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Acts 25
25:1 Now
1
when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from
Caesarea to Jerusalem.
(
1) Satan's ministers are subtle and diligent
in seeking every occasion: but God who watches for his own, easily hinders all
their counsels.
25:6
2 And when he had tarried among them
more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the
judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought.
(
2) We may justly avoid an injury, but not with
an injury.
25:7 And when he was come, the Jews which came down
from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against
Paul, which
a they could not prove.
(
a) They could not prove them certainly and
without undoubted reasons.
25:9 3
But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt
thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
(
3) God does not only turn aside the counsel of
the wicked, but also turns it upon their own heads.
25:13
4 And after certain days king
b
Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
(
4) Festus, without even trying to, even before
kings, brings to light the wickedness of the Jews, and Paul's innocence, and
in this way marvellously confirms the Church of God.
(
b) This Agrippa was the son of Agrippa whose
death Luke spoke of before, and Bernice was his sister.
25:16
To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to
c
deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face
to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid
against him.
(
c) The Romans did not used to deliver any man to
be punished before, etc.
25:19 5
But had certain questions against him of their own
d
superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
(
5) The profane and wicked take an occasion to
condemn the true doctrine, because of private controversies and contentions of
men between themselves: but the truth nevertheless abides safe and sure in the
meantime.
(
d) This profane man calls the Jewish religion
"superstition", and that before King Agrippa, but it is no wonder:
for the rulers of provinces, because of the majesty of the empire of Rome,
used to think themselves better than kings.
25:22 6
Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said
he, thou shalt hear him.
(
6) That is fulfilled in Paul which the Lord had
told to Ananias about him; see (
Acts
9:15).
25:23 And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and
Bernice, with great
e pomp, and was
entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of
the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
(
e) Gorgeously, like a prince.
25:26
Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my
f
lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee,
O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
(
f) To Augustus. Good princes refused this name
at the first, that is, to be called lords, but afterwards they allowed it, as
we read of Traianus.
Chapter 25:
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