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NASB (UPDATED) TEXT: Act_26:30-32
30The king stood up and the governor and Bernice, and those who were sitting with them, 31and when they had gone aside, they began talking to one another, saying, "This man is not doing anything worthy of death or imprisonment." 32And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."
Act_26:30 How did Luke get this information? It was a private conversation between governmental leaders (and their families).
1. a servant have heard this and passed it on to Luke?
2. Luke assumes what they said by subsequent statements
3. Luke uses this opportunity to reinforce his literary purpose of showing that neither Paul or Christianity is a threat to Rome
Act_26:31-32 "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar" This shows one of Luke's major purposes in writing Acts, which was to show that Christianity was not treasonous to Rome. This is a second class conditional sentence which makes a false assertion to accentuate a truth. This man might have been set free (which he was not) if he had not appealed to Caesar (which he did).
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