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Acts 25:20 KJV
Acts · chapter 25 · verse 20
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.Acts 25:20 · King James Version
Acts 25:20 in context
18Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:
19But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
20And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
21But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
22Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- questionszētēsisa seeking, enquiry, a questioning, debate, a subject of questioning or debate, matter of…G2214 →
- JerusalemierousalēmJerusalem = " set ye double peace" , denotes either the city itself or the…G2419 →
- doubtedaporeōto be without resources, to be in straits, to be left wanting, to be embarrassed, to be…G639 →
- mannerperiabout, concerning, on account of, because of, around, nearG4012 →
- judgedkrinōto separate, put asunder, to pick out, select, choose, to approve, esteem, to prefer, to…G2919 →
- askedlegōto say, to speak, affirm over, maintain, to teach, to exhort, advise, to command, direct…G3004 →
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We have here the preparation that was made for another hearing of Paul before King Agrippa, not in order to his giving judgment upon him, but in order to his giving advice concerning him, or rather only to gratify his curiosity.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-27