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I, being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these matters.
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A Governor's Confusion
Commentators note that Festus, a powerful Roman official, openly admitted his perplexity. He was completely out of his depth with the Jewish "questions" about Jesus' resurrection. As scholars like Barnes and Gill explain, his suggestion to move the trial to Jerusalem was a direct result of his ignorance, showing how the claims of Christ baffled the worldly-wise.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And because I doubted of such manner of questions. See the margin. Because I hesitated about the right way of settling them; because I was…
Being perplexed (απορουμενος). Present middle participle of the common verb απορεω (α privative and πορος way), to be in doubt whi…
19th Century
Anglican
Because I doubted of such manner of questions.—Better, I, being perplexed as to the inquiry about these thin…
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Baptist
So Paul's witness-bearing was made to spread still further. It is scarcely possible to conceive of any other circumstances in which the gospel coul…
Festus told Agrippa how the Jewish leaders confronted him with Paul’s case when he first went to Jerusalem and that they had asked for Paul’s death…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And because I doubted of such manner of questions Or was ignorant of them, and knew not what to make of them, or to …
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Agrippa had the government of Galilee. How many unjust and hasty judgments the Roman maxim (Acts 25:16) condemns! This heathen, guided …
