Acts 24:27

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound.

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  • Acts 25:9 : 9 And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, `Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?'
  • Acts 25:14 : 14 and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, `There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,
  • Acts 12:3 : 3 and having seen that it is pleasing to the Jews, he added to lay hold of Peter also -- and they were the days of the unleavened food --
  • Acts 25:1 : 1 Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,
  • Mark 15:15 : 15 and Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released to them Barabbas, and delivered up Jesus -- having scourged `him' -- that he might be crucified.
  • Acts 26:32 : 32 and Agrippa said to Festus, `This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.'
  • Acts 28:30 : 30 and Paul remained an entire two years in his own hired `house', and was receiving all those coming in unto him,
  • Gal 1:10 : 10 for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please -- Christ's servant I should not be.
  • Acts 26:24-25 : 24 And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;' 25 and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;
  • Luke 23:24-25 : 24 and Pilate gave judgment for their request being done, 25 and he released him who because of sedition and murder hath been cast into the prison, whom they were asking, and Jesus he gave up to their will.
  • Exod 23:2 : 2 `Thou art not after many to evil, nor dost thou testify concerning a strife, to turn aside after many to cause `others' to turn aside;
  • Prov 29:25 : 25 Fear of man causeth a snare, And the confident in Jehovah is set on high.
  • Acts 25:4 : 4 Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and himself is about speedily to go on thither,
  • Acts 23:35 : 35 `I will hear thee -- said he -- when thine accusers also may have come;' he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

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  • Acts 25:12-15
    4 verses
    85%

    12then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, `To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.'

    13And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea saluting Festus,

    14and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, `There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,

    15about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,

  • Acts 24:22-26
    5 verses
    80%

    22And having heard these things, Felix delayed them -- having known more exactly of the things concerning the way -- saying, `When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;'

    23having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let `him' also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.

    24And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,

    25and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;'

    26and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him;

  • Acts 25:1-6
    6 verses
    80%

    1Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,

    2and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews made manifest to him `the things' against Paul, and were calling on him,

    3asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.

    4Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and himself is about speedily to go on thither,

    5`Therefore those able among you -- saith he -- having come down together, if there be anything in this man -- let them accuse him;'

    6and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought;

  • Acts 25:9
    78%

    9And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, `Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?'

  • Acts 25:20-27
    8 verses
    76%

    20and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, said, If he would wish to go on to Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things --

    21but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I did command him to be kept till I might send him unto Caesar.'

    22And Agrippa said unto Festus, `I was wishing also myself to hear the man;' and he said, `To-morrow thou shalt hear him;'

    23on the morrow, therefore -- on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered -- Paul was brought forth.

    24And Festus said, `King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;

    25and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,

    26concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to `my' lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;

    27for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.'

  • Acts 24:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator -- Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor `the things' against Paul;

    2and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse `him', saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought,

  • Acts 24:4
    73%

    4and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness;

  • Acts 23:23-27
    5 verses
    73%

    23and having called near a certain two of the centurions, he said, `Make ready soldiers two hundred, that they may go on unto Caesarea, and horsemen seventy, and spearmen two hundred, from the third hour of the night;

    24beasts also provide, that, having set Paul on, they may bring him safe unto Felix the governor;'

    25he having written a letter after this description:

    26`Claudius Lysias, to the most noble governor Felix, hail:

    27This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them -- having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman;

  • Acts 22:29-30
    2 verses
    72%

    29Immediately, therefore, they departed from him who are about to examine him, and the chief captain also was afraid, having learned that he is a Roman, and because he had bound him,

    30and on the morrow, intending to know the certainty wherefore he is accused by the Jews, he did loose him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all their sanhedrim to come, and having brought down Paul, he set `him' before them.

  • Acts 28:30
    72%

    30and Paul remained an entire two years in his own hired `house', and was receiving all those coming in unto him,

  • Acts 26:30-32
    3 verses
    71%

    30And, he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them,

    31and having withdrawn, they were speaking unto one another, saying -- `This man doth nothing worthy of death or of bonds;'

    32and Agrippa said to Festus, `This man might have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.'

  • Acts 23:30-32
    3 verses
    71%

    30and a plot having been intimated to me against this man -- about to be of the Jews -- at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.'

    31Then, indeed, the soldiers according to that directed them, having taken up Paul, brought him through the night to Antipatris,

    32and on the morrow, having suffered the horsemen to go on with him, they returned to the castle;

  • Acts 28:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered up the prisoners to the captain of the barrack, but Paul was suffered to remain by himself, with the soldier guarding him.

    17And it came to pass after three days, Paul called together those who are the principal men of the Jews, and they having come together, he said unto them: `Men, brethren, I -- having done nothing contrary to the people, or to the customs of the fathers -- a prisoner from Jerusalem, was delivered up to the hands of the Romans;

  • Acts 24:10
    70%

    10And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing `that' for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer;

  • Acts 25:17
    69%

    17`They, therefore, having come together -- I, making no delay, on the succeeding `day' having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,

  • Acts 27:3
    69%

    3on the next `day' also we touched at Sidon, and Julius, courteously treating Paul, did permit `him', having gone on unto friends, to receive `their' care.

  • Acts 23:20
    68%

    20and he said -- `The Jews agreed to request thee, that to-morrow to the sanhedrim thou mayest bring down Paul, as being about to enquire something more exactly concerning him;

  • Acts 26:24
    68%

    24And, he thus making a defence, Festus with a loud voice said, `Thou art mad, Paul; much learning doth turn thee mad;'

  • Acts 27:1
    68%

    1And when our sailing to Italy was determined, they were delivering up both Paul and certain others, prisoners, to a centurion, by name Julius, of the band of Sebastus,

  • Acts 18:11
    67%

    11and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.