Acts 25:27

For it seems unreasonable to me to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”

Berean Standard Bible

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

26I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign one about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after this inquiry I may have something to write.

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Cross References

Proverbs 18:13He who answers a matter before he hears it— this is folly and disgrace to him.

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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