Acts 25

Acts 25

Acts 15:22-24 in Latin (left column) and Greek (right column) in Codex Laudianus, written about AD 550.
Book Acts of the Apostles
Bible part New Testament
Order in the Bible part 5
Category Church history

Acts 25 is the twenty-fifth chapter of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the period of Paul's imprisonment in Caesarea.[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke composed this book as well as the Gospel of Luke.[2]

Text

The original text is written in Koine Greek and is divided into 27 verses. Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:

Location

The events in this chapter took place in Caesarea and Jerusalem.

Structure

This chapter can be grouped:

Verse 12

Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!”[3]

Verse 27

[Festus said to Agrippa:] "For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to specify the charges against him."[4]

See also

References

  1. Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
  2. Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
  3. Acts 25:12
  4. Acts 25:27

External links

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