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== Verse 12 == |
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[[Image:Coin of Porcius Festus.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Bronze prutah minted by Porcius Festus in Nero's fifth year (AD 58/59)]] |
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: ''Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!”''<ref>{{bibleverse||Acts|25:12|NKJV}}</ref> |
: ''Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!”''<ref>{{bibleverse||Acts|25:12|NKJV}}</ref> |
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*"[[Porcius Festus|(Porcius) Festus]]": the [[procurator (Roman)|procurator]] of [[Iudaea Province|Judea]] succeeding [[Antonius Felix]]. His exact time in office is not known, with the earliest proposed date for the start of his term c. AD 55-6, while the latest is AD 61,<ref>{{cite book|title=Encyclopædia Britannica, s.v. "Bible"|year=1910|publisher=Cambridge University Press|location=Cambridge|pages=892f|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EjMEAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA892&lpg=PA892&dq=festus+%22A.D.+58%22&source=bl&ots=T9Vgzn9d2k&sig=c9nuUpD4siSjE1meQKIOuO7FP0I&hl=en&ei=JqgtTrqZLKnL0QHLu7HkDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDEQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=festus%20%22A.D.%2058%22&f=false}}</ref> but most scholars opt for a date between 58 and 60, based on a change in the provincial coinage of Judaea attested for [[Nero]]'s fifth year points to AD 59.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bruce|first=F. F.|title=New Testament History|year=1983|publisher=Doubleday|pages=345f.}}</ref> |
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== Verse 27 == |
== Verse 27 == |
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Revision as of 15:59, 20 May 2019
| Acts 25 | |
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.jpg) Acts 15:22–24 in Latin (left column) and Greek (right column) in Codex Laudianus, written about AD 550. | |
| Book | Acts of the Apostles |
| Category | Church history |
| Christian Bible part | New Testament |
| Order in the Christian part | 5 |
Acts 25 is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the period of Paul's imprisonment in Caesarea. The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.[1]
Text
The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 27 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
- Codex Vaticanus (AD 325–350)
- Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330–360)
- Codex Bezae (c. AD 400)
- Codex Alexandrinus (c. AD 400–440)
- Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (c. AD 450)
- Codex Laudianus (c. AD 550)
Location
The events in this chapter took place in Caesarea and Jerusalem.
Verse 12
- Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!”[2]
- "(Porcius) Festus": the procurator of Judea succeeding Antonius Felix. His exact time in office is not known, with the earliest proposed date for the start of his term c. AD 55-6, while the latest is AD 61,[3] but most scholars opt for a date between 58 and 60, based on a change in the provincial coinage of Judaea attested for Nero's fifth year points to AD 59.[4]
Verse 27
- [Festus said to Agrippa:] "For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to specify the charges against him."[5]
See also
References
- ^ Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
- ^ Acts 25:12
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica, s.v. "Bible". Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1910. pp. 892f.
- ^ Bruce, F. F. (1983). New Testament History. Doubleday. pp. 345f.
- ^ Acts 25:27