32Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
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Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.
For 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. …
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.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 24-32)We have reason to think that Paul had a great deal more to say in defence of the gospel he preached, and for the honour of it, and to recommend it to the good opinion of this noble audience; he had just fallen upon that which was the life of the cause—the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, and here he is in his element; now he warms more than before, his mouth is opened towards them, his hear…
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