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Acts 25:20 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: King James Version
" And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters. "
Acts 25:20
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
18 Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
19 But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
22 Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
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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."
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