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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 25:19 - 25:19
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questions ... of their own superstition - rather, “religion” (see on Act 17:22). It cannot be supposed that Festus would use the word in any discourteous sense in addressing his Jewish guest.
one Jesus - “Thus speaks this miserable Festus of Him to whom every knee shall bow” [Bengel].
whom Paul affirmed - “kept affirming.”
to be alive - showing that the resurrection of the Crucified One had been the burden, as usual, of Paul’s pleading. The insignificance of the whole affair in the eyes of Festus is manifest.