11For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
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But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
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.
O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands; …
But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
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…
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