Tarried (διετριβον). Imperfect active of διατριβω, common verb for spending time (Acts 12:19, etc.).

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Festus declared Paul's case. He did this, probably, because Agrippa, being a Jew, would be supposed to be interested in the case. It was n…

Festus declared Paul’s cause to the king.—The matter seems to have come up, as it were, in the course of conversation. Festus prob…

Festus must have felt profound contempt for the chief priests and elders of the Jews who clamored for Paul's death even before he had been tried, a…

Though Agrippa II did not rule over Judea, he had been appointed by Claudius to be “the curator of the temple,” with power to depose and appoint th…

When many days. Therefore, when some time had passed and they lacked topics for conversation—as idle people tend to invent something to ta…

And when they had been there many days
Indulging themselves in pleasure, and spending their time in conversing on va…

Agrippa had the government of Galilee. How many unjust and hasty judgments the Roman maxim (Acts 25:16) condemns! This heathen, guided …