Post by Shepherd on Aug 15, 2009 12:00:59 GMT -6
THE HEARING BEFORE FESTUS AND AGRIPPA
ACTS 25:23...AND ON THE MORROW, WHEN AGRIPPA WAS COME, AND BERNICE, WITH GREAT PUMP, AND WAS ENTERED INTO THE PLACE OF HEARING, WITH CHIEF CAPTAINS, AND PRINCIPAL MEN OF THE CITY, AT FESTUS’ COMMANDMENT PAUL WAS BROUGHT FORTH.
The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with all the ceremony and honor due them 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.
Paul had a great audience to testify to. Paul appears in chains before this August company of rulers and kings. Festus was asking Agrippa to help him frame a charge against Paul to send him to Caesar.
ACTS 25:24-27...AND FESTUS SAID, KING AGRIPPA, AND ALL MEN WHICH ARE HERE PRESENT WITH US, YE SEE THIS MAN, ABOUT WHOM ALL THE MULTITUDE OF THE JEWS HAVE DEALT WITH ME, BOTH AT JERUSALEM, AND ALSO HERE, CRYING THAT HE OUGHT NOT TO LIVE ANY LONGER. 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.
Festus said to king Agrippa, and all who were there with them; you see this man against whom all the Jewish people, both here and in Jerusalem, have brought complaints to him. They scream that he should not live any longer. Festus said that he could not find that he had done anything for which he deserve the death sentence.
He told them that since he himself made an appeal to the Emperor, he decided to send him. Festus said that he did not have anything definite about him to write to the Emperor. So he brought him here before them—and especially before the King Agrippa–so that, after investigating his case, that he may have something to write. For it seems unreasonable to him to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him.
Paul uses this opportunity to preach one of the greatest sermons ever recorded. Paul preached Jesus and Him crucified right up to the last breath he had. I am sure there will be more about this in the next chapters of this book, this ends chapter 25.
ACTS 25:23...AND ON THE MORROW, WHEN AGRIPPA WAS COME, AND BERNICE, WITH GREAT PUMP, AND WAS ENTERED INTO THE PLACE OF HEARING, WITH CHIEF CAPTAINS, AND PRINCIPAL MEN OF THE CITY, AT FESTUS’ COMMANDMENT PAUL WAS BROUGHT FORTH.
The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with all the ceremony and honor due them 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.
Paul had a great audience to testify to. Paul appears in chains before this August company of rulers and kings. Festus was asking Agrippa to help him frame a charge against Paul to send him to Caesar.
ACTS 25:24-27...AND FESTUS SAID, KING AGRIPPA, AND ALL MEN WHICH ARE HERE PRESENT WITH US, YE SEE THIS MAN, ABOUT WHOM ALL THE MULTITUDE OF THE JEWS HAVE DEALT WITH ME, BOTH AT JERUSALEM, AND ALSO HERE, CRYING THAT HE OUGHT NOT TO LIVE ANY LONGER. 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.
Festus said to king Agrippa, and all who were there with them; you see this man against whom all the Jewish people, both here and in Jerusalem, have brought complaints to him. They scream that he should not live any longer. Festus said that he could not find that he had done anything for which he deserve the death sentence.
He told them that since he himself made an appeal to the Emperor, he decided to send him. Festus said that he did not have anything definite about him to write to the Emperor. So he brought him here before them—and especially before the King Agrippa–so that, after investigating his case, that he may have something to write. For it seems unreasonable to him to send a prisoner without clearly indicating the charges against him.
Paul uses this opportunity to preach one of the greatest sermons ever recorded. Paul preached Jesus and Him crucified right up to the last breath he had. I am sure there will be more about this in the next chapters of this book, this ends chapter 25.
