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Acts 25:3 KJV
Acts · chapter 25 · verse 3
And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.Acts 25:3 · King James Version
Acts 25:3 in context
1Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
2Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
3And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him.
4But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.
5Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- JerusalemierousalēmJerusalem = " set ye double peace" , denotes either the city itself or the…G2419 →
- desiredaiteōto ask, beg, call for, crave, desire, requireG154 →
- againstkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- favourcharisgrace, that which affords joy, pleasure, delight, sweetness, charm, loveliness grace of…G5485 →
- layingpoieōto make, with the names of things made, to produce, construct, form, fashion, etc., to be…G4160 →
- waitenedraa lying in wait, an ambushG1747 →
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We commonly say, "New lords, new laws, new customs;" but here was a new governor, and yet Paul had the same treatment from him that he had from the former, and no better. Festus, like Felix, is not so just to him as he should have been, for he does not release him;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-12