Acts 25

Question 1

Acts 25:1

Answer 1

Three days after arriving in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

Question 2

Acts 25:2

Answer 2

where the chief priests and Jewish leaders appeared before him and presented the charges against Paul.

Question 3

Acts 25:3

Answer 3

They urgently requested Festus, as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

Question 4

Acts 25:4

Answer 4

Festus answered, “Paul is being held at Caesarea, and I myself am going there soon.

Question 5

Acts 25:5

Answer 5

Let some of your leaders come with me and press charges against the man there, if he has done anything wrong.”

Question 6

Acts 25:6

Answer 6

After spending eight or ten days with them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day he convened the court and ordered that Paul be brought before him.

Question 7

Acts 25:7

Answer 7

When Paul appeared, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges against him, which they could not prove.

Question 8

Acts 25:8

Answer 8

Then Paul made his defense: “I have done nothing wrong against the law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.”

Question 9

Acts 25:9

Answer 9

Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial before me there on these charges?”

Question 10

Acts 25:10

Answer 10

Paul answered: “I am now standing before Caesar’s court, where I ought to be tried. I have not done any wrong to the Jews, as you yourself know very well.

Question 11

Acts 25:11

Answer 11

If, however, I am guilty of doing anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if the charges brought against me by these Jews are not true, no one has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!”

Question 12

Acts 25:12

Answer 12

After Festus had conferred with his council, he declared: “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!”

Question 13

Acts 25:13

Answer 13

A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

Question 14

Acts 25:14

Answer 14

Since they were spending many days there, Festus discussed Paul’s case with the king. He said: “There is a man here whom Felix left as a prisoner.

Question 15

Acts 25:15

Answer 15

When I went to Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews brought charges against him and asked that he be condemned.

Question 16

Acts 25:16

Answer 16

“I told them that it is not the Roman custom to hand over any man before he has faced his accusers and has had an opportunity to defend himself against their charges.

Question 17

Acts 25:17

Answer 17

When they came here with me, I did not delay the case, but convened the court the next day and ordered the man to be brought in.

Question 18

Acts 25:18

Answer 18

When his accusers got up to speak, they did not charge him with any of the crimes I had expected.

Question 19

Acts 25:19

Answer 19

Instead, they had some points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a dead man named Jesus who Paul claimed was alive.

Question 20

Acts 25:20

Answer 20

I was at a loss how to investigate such matters; so I asked if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and stand trial there on these charges.

Question 21

Acts 25:21

Answer 21

When Paul made his appeal to be held over for the Emperor’s decision, I ordered him held until I could send him to Caesar.”

Question 22

Acts 25:22

Answer 22

Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear this man myself.” He replied, “Tomorrow you will hear him.”

Question 23

Acts 25:23

Answer 23

The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience room with the high ranking officers and the leading men of the city. At the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

Question 24

Acts 25:24

Answer 24

Festus said: “King Agrippa, and all who are present with us, you see this man! The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him in Jerusalem and here in Caesarea, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.

Question 25

Acts 25:25

Answer 25

I found he had done nothing deserving of death, but because he made his appeal to the Emperor I decided to send him to Rome.

Question 26

Acts 25:26

Answer 26

But I have nothing definite to write to His Majesty about him. Therefore I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that as a result of this investigation I may have something to write.

Question 27

Acts 25:27

Answer 27

For I think it is unreasonable to send on a prisoner without specifying the charges against him.”