Acts 25:23-27

Paul before Agrippa

23 So, on the next day when ¹Agrippa came together with ²Bernice amid great pomp, and entered the auditorium accompanied by the commanders and the prominent men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

24 Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all you gentlemen here present with us, you see this man about whom ³all the people of the Jews appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly declaring that ⁴he ought not to live any longer.

25 "But I found that he had committed ⁵nothing worthy of death; and since he himself ⁶appealed to the Emperor, I decided to send him.

26 "Yet I have nothing definite about him to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you all and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I may have something to write.

27 "For it seems absurd to me in sending a prisoner, not to indicate also the charges against him."

Cross References

• 1. Acts 25:13; Acts 26:30
• 2. Acts 25:13; Acts 26:30
• 3. Acts 25:2, 7
• 4. Acts 22:22
• 5. Luke 23:4; Acts 23:29
• 6. Acts 25:11

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "and Bernice"
• [b]. Lit "and with"
• [c]. I.e. chiliarchs, in command of one thousand troops
• [d]. V 21, note 1
• [e]. Lit "About whom I have nothing definite"