20And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
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But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-27)We have here the preparation that was made for another hearing of Paul before King Agrippa, not in order to his giving judgment upon him, but in order to his giving advice concerning him, or rather only to gratify his curiosity. Christ had said, concerning his followers, that they should be brought before governors and kings . In the former part of this chapter Paul was brought before Festus the g…
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