19But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
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Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.
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.
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.
Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest. …
Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth: …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-22)Paul, with a great deal of expense and hazard, is brought a prisoner to Rome, and when he has come nobody appears to prosecute him or lay any thing to his charge; but he must call his own cause; and here he represents it to the chief of the Jews at Rome. It was not long since, by an edict of Claudius, all the Jews were banished from Rome, and kept out till his death; but, in the five years since t…
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