Acts 25:27 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁷For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

John 7:51
Doth our law judge any man, before it hear him, and know what he doeth?
Proverbs 18:13
He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.

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Commentary

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 go…

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

(vv. 27)

22-27. I would also hear--“should like to hear.” the man myself--No doubt Paul was fight when he said, “The king knoweth of these things ... for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner” (Ac 26:26). Hence his curiosity to see and hear the man who had raised such commotion and was remodelling to such an extent the whole Jewish life.