Acts 25:27 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes {laid} against him.”

Acts 25:27

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But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my 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.

For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes {laid} against 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. {more...: or, as some copies read, no more than eight or ten days}"

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