Acts 25:25

But I, having understood him to have done nothing worthy of death, and also him, this man, having appealed Augustus I decided to send him.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

24And Festus says, King Agrippa, and all who are present with us, ye see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, shouting he ought not to live any longer.

26About whom I do not have anything certain to write to the lord. Therefore I brought him before you, and especially before thee, king Agrippa, so that, an examination having occurred, I may have something to write.

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Cross References

Luke 23:4And Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, I find nothing guilty in this man.

John 18:38Pilate says to him, What is truth? And having said this, he went out again to the Jews, and says to them, I find not one cause in him.

Acts 23:29whom I found accusing about issues of their law, having not one accusation worthy of death or of bonds.

Acts 26:31And having withdrawn, they spoke to each other, saying, This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

Matthew Henry on Acts 25:14-27

Agrippa's Visit to Festus; Paul Arraigned before Agrippa. 13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Cæsarea to salute Festus. 14 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: 15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him. 16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before… Read the whole commentary →

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