ACTS 25:11 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Cesar.”
'If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have done anything deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if the charges brought against me by these Jews are not true, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar!' - Paul's logic is airtight: guilty men may be punished; innocent men must not be surrendered to enemies. By appealing to Caesar (epikaleō, epikaleō-'I call upon'), Paul invokes his Roman citizen right to appeal the magistrate's decision to a higher authority. Luke's narrative arc reaches its turning point: Paul will go to Rome, as Jesus promised (23:11).
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