These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Acts 25
Brit Hadashah 27 verses
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Festus, having entered on his duties as governor of the province, two days later went up from Caesarea to .
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The High Priests and the leading men among the Jews immediately made representations to him against , and begged him—
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- 3 asking it as a favour, to Paul’s prejudice—to have him brought to . They were planning an ambush to kill him on the way.
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Festus, however, replied that was in custody in Caesarea, and that he was himself going there very soon.
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“Therefore let those of you,” he said, “who can come, go down with me, and impeach the man, if there is anything amiss in him.”
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After a stay of eight or ten days in —not more—he went down to Caesarea; and the next day, taking his seat on the tribunal, he ordered to be brought in.
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- 7 Upon Paul’s arrival, the Jews who had come down from stood round him, and brought many grave charges against him which they were unable to substantiate.
- 8 But, in reply, said, “Neither against the Jewish Law, nor against the Temple, nor against Caesar, have I committed any offence whatever.”
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Then Festus, being anxious to gratify the Jews, asked , “Are you willing to go up to , and there stand your trial before me on these charges?”
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- 10 “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal,” replied , “where alone I ought to be tried. The Jews have no real ground of complaint against me, as in fact you yourself are beginning to see more clearly.
- 11 If, however, I have done wrong and have committed any offence for which I deserve to die, I do not ask to be excused that penalty. But if there is no in what these men allege against me, no one has the right to give me up to them as a favour. I appeal to Caesar.”
- 12 Then, after conferring with the Council, Festus replied, “To Caesar you have appealed: to Caesar you shall go.”
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A short time after this, Agrippa the and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a complimentary visit to Festus;
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and, during their rather long stay, Festus laid Paul’s case before the . “There is a man here,” he said, “whom Felix left a prisoner,
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about whom, when I went to , the High Priests and the Elders of the Jews made representations to me, begging that sentence might be pronounced against him.
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My reply was that it is not the custom among the Romans to give up any one for punishment before the accused has had his accusers face to face, and has had an opportunity of defending himself against the charge which has been brought against him.
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“When, therefore, a number of them came here, the next day I took my seat on the tribunal, without any loss of time, and ordered the man to be brought in.
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- 18 But, when his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with the misdemeanours of which I had been suspecting him.
- 19 But they quarrelled with him about certain matters connected with their own religion, and about one who had died, but—so persistently maintained—is now alive.
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I was at a loss how to investigate such questions, and asked whether he would care to go to and there stand his trial on these matters.
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But when appealed to have his case kept for the Emperor’s decision, I ordered him to be kept in prison until I could send him up to Caesar.”
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“I should like to the man myself,” said Agrippa. “to-morrow,” replied Festus, “you shall.” Accordingly, the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came in state
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- 23 and took their seats in the Judgement Hall, attended by the Tribunes and the men of high rank in the city; and, at the command of Festus, was brought in.
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Then Festus said, “King Agrippa and all who are present with us, you see here the man about whom the whole nation of the Jews made suit to me, both in and here, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.
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I could not discover that he had done anything for which he deserved to die; but as he has himself appealed to the Emperor, I have decided to send him to Rome.
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I have nothing very definite, however, to tell our Sovereign about him. So I have brought the man before you all—and especially before you, King Agrippa—that after he has been examined I may find something which I can put into writing.
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For, when sending a prisoner to Rome, it seems to me to be absurd not to state the charges against him.”
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