Hechos 25:21

21 pero Pablo apeló al emperador para que resuelva su caso. Así que di órdenes de que lo mantuvieran bajo custodia hasta que yo pudiera hacer los arreglos necesarios para enviarlo al César.

Hechos 25:21 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 25:21

But when Paul had appealed to be reserved
In custody at Caesarea:

unto the hearing of Augustus;
to have his cause heard, tried, and judged of, by the Roman Emperor Nero, here called Augustus; for as it was usual for a Roman emperor to be called Caesar, from Julius Caesar, the first of them, so to be called Augustus, from Octavius Augustus, the second emperor: his original surname was Thurinus, but this being objected to him as a reproachful one, he afterwards took the name of Caesar, and then of Augustus; the one by the will of his great uncle, the other by the advice of Munatius Plancus; when some thought he ought to be called Romulus, as if he was the founder of the city, it prevailed that he should rather be called Augustus; not only this surname being new, but more grand, seeing religious places, and in which anything was consecrated by soothsaying, were called "Augusta, ab auctu, vel ab avium gestu, gustuve", according to Ennius ^F20: in the Greek text the name is Sebastos, which signifies venerable and worshipful.

I commanded him to be kept;
in Caesarea, by a centurion, and not sent to Jerusalem:

till I might send him to Caesar:
till he could have an opportunity of sending him to Rome, to take his trial before the emperor.

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Suetonius in Vit. Octav. c. 7.

Hechos 25:21 In-Context

19 En cambio, tenían algo que ver con su religión y con un hombre muerto llamado Jesús, quien —según Pablo— está vivo.

20 No sabía cómo investigar estas cuestiones, así que le pregunté si él estaba dispuesto a ser juzgado por estos cargos en Jerusalén;

21 pero Pablo apeló al emperador para que resuelva su caso. Así que di órdenes de que lo mantuvieran bajo custodia hasta que yo pudiera hacer los arreglos necesarios para enviarlo al César.

22 —Me gustaría oír personalmente a ese hombre —dijo Agripa.
Y Festo respondió:
—¡Mañana lo oirás!

23 Pablo habla con Agripa
Así que, al día siguiente, Agripa y Berenice llegaron al auditorio con gran pompa, acompañados por oficiales militares y hombres prominentes de la ciudad. Festo dio órdenes de que trajeran a Pablo.