Acts 25:27

For it seems to me against reason to send a prisoner without making clear what there is against him.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

26But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing.

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Cross References

Proverbs 18:13To give an answer before hearing is a foolish thing and a cause of shame.

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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