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Acts 25:27 KJV
Acts · chapter 25 · verse 27
For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.Acts 25:27 · King James Version
Acts 25:27 in context
25But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
26Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.
27For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- unreasonablealogosdestitute of reason, contrary to reason, absurdG249 →
- prisonerdesmiosbound, in bonds, a captive, a prisonerG1198 →
- seemethdokeōto be of opinion, think, suppose, to seem, to be accounted, reputed, it seems to me, I…G1380 →
- signifysēmainōto give a sign, to signify, indicate, to make knownG4591 →
- againstkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- withalmēno, not lestG3361 →
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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