Acts 25:10 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁰Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Matthew 27:18
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
2 Corinthians 4:2
But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.
Acts 25:25
But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
Acts 28:18
Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
Acts 26:31
And when they were gone aside, they talked between themselves, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

We commonly say, “New lords, new laws, new customs;” but here was a new governor, and yet Paul had the same treatment from him that he had from the former, and no better. Festus, like Felix, is not so just to him as he should have been, for he does not release him; and yet not so unjust to him as the Jews would have had him to be, for he will not condemn him to die, nor expose him to their rage. H…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 10)

9-10. Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure--to ingratiate himself with them. said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and ... be judged ... before me--or, “under my protection.” If this was meant in earnest, it was temporizing and vacillating. But, possibly, anticipating Paul’s refusal, he wished merely to avoid the odium of refusing to remove the trial to Jerusalem.