Festus said with a loud voice - surprised and bewildered.
Paul, thou art beside thyself, much learning doth make thee mad - “is turning thy head.” The union of flowing Greek, deep acquaintance with the sacred writings of his nation, reference to a resurrection and other doctrines to a Roman utterly unintelligible, and, above all, lofty religious earnestness, so strange to the cultivated, cold-hearted skeptics of that day - may account for this sudden exclamation.