Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Acts 25:19
questions . . . of their own superstition—rather, "religion" (see on Acts 17:22). It cannot be supposed that Festus would use the word in any discourteous sense in addressing his Jewish guest.
one Jesus—"Thus speaks this miserable Festus of Him to whom every knee shall bow" [BENGEL].
whom Paul affirmed—"kept affirming."
to be alive—showing that the resurrection of the Crucified One had been the burden, as usual, of Paul's pleading. The insignificance of the whole affair in the eyes of Festus is manifest.
Acts 25:16-21
to deliver any man to die—On the word "deliver up," see on Acts 25:11.
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