Acts 25:12 — Meaning and Application

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“Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.”

Acts 25:12

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Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.

For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.

And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.

And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:

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Acts 25:1

"Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem."

Acts 25:2

"Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,"

Acts 25:3

"And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him."

Acts 25:4

"But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly {thither}."

Acts 25:5

"Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with {me}, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him."

Acts 25:6

"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. {more...: or, as some copies read, no more than eight or ten days}"

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