Acts 25:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.

Acts 25:4 —

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Acts 24:23
And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.

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. 4)

4-6. answered that Paul should be kept--rather, “is in custody.” at Cæsarea, and ... himself would depart shortly thither.