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Acts 25:20

Listen to Acts 25:20
20 I was undecided about how I could get information on these matters, so I asked Paul if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.

Acts 25:20 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 25:20

And because I doubted of such manner of questions
Or was ignorant of them, and knew not what to make of them, or to say to them, and was at an entire loss what to do in this affair:

I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of
these matters;
before the Jewish sanhedrim, who best understood them.

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Acts 25:20 In-Context

18 His opponents stood up, but they did not accuse him of any of the evil crimes that I thought they would.
19 All they had were some arguments with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus, who has died; but Paul claims that he is alive.
20 I was undecided about how I could get information on these matters, so I asked Paul if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.
21 But Paul appealed; he asked to be kept under guard and to let the Emperor decide his case. So I gave orders for him to be kept under guard until I could send him to the Emperor."
22 Agrippa said to Festus, "I would like to hear this man myself." "You will hear him tomorrow," Festus answered.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.

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