ACTS 25:9 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?”
Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, 'Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial before me there?' - Festus reveals his weakness: wanting (thelōn, thelōn) to 'do the Jews a favor' (charin epiginōnai, charin epiginōnai, 'to secure favor with'), he bends toward injustice. He offers to move the trial back to Jerusalem, where mob pressure could influence the verdict. The 'before me' is crucial-Festus would preside, but in the Jews' home territory, where his judgment could be compromised.
Church Fathers on Acts 25:9
But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Cæsarea, and that he himself would depart shortly there. Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him. And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Cæsarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought. Acts 25:4-6 But after they came down, they immediately made their accusations…
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