Acts 25:20
18 But when his accusers rose to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected.
19 They only had some contentions with him regarding their own religion and a certain Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
Since I was at a loss as to how to investigate these matters, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.
21 But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
22 Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear this man myself.” “Tomorrow you will hear him,” Festus declared.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Since I was at a loss as to how to investigate these matters, I asked if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.
- KJV
- And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
- WEB
- Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.
- ASV
- And I, being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these matters.
- DARBY
- And as I myself was at a loss as to an inquiry into these things, I said, Was he willing to go to Jerusalem and there to be judged concerning these things?
- BLB
- Now I, being perplexed concerning this inquiry, was asking if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there to be judged concerning these things.
- ÅB
- Da jeg nå var rådvill og ikke visste hvordan denne sak burde undersøkes, spurte jeg om han ville reise til Jerusalem og der få dom i saken.
- OTB
- Siden jeg var i villrede om hvordan jeg skulle undersøke slike saker, spurte jeg om han var villig til å dra til Jerusalem og stå for retten der.
- B1930
- Da jeg nu var rådvill og ikke visste hvorledes denne sak burde undersøkes, spurte jeg om han vilde reise til Jerusalem og der få dom i saken.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Acts 25:9
But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to stand trial before me on these charges?”
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