translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: ACT

label: NET study note

text: See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27 .


text: Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1 . This was a journey of 65 mi (just over 100 km). map For location see Map2-C1 ; Map4-B3 ; Map5-F2 ; Map7-A1 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: Planning an ambush. The Jewish leadership had not forgotten the original plan of several years ago (see 23:16 ). They did not trust the Roman legal process, but preferred to take matters into their own hands.


text: Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1 .


text: Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1 . map For location see Map2-C1 ; Map4-B3 ; Map5-F2 ; Map7-A1 ; JP1-F4 ; JP2-F4 ; JP3-F4 ; JP4-F4 .


text: “I have done nothing wrong.” Here is yet another declaration of total innocence on Paul’s part.


text: That is, no one can hand me over to them lawfully. Paul was aware of the dangers of a return to Jerusalem.


text: “To Caesar you will go!” In all probability Festus was pleased to send Paul on to Rome and get this political problem out of his court.


text: King Agrippa was Herod Agrippa II ( a.d. 27-92/93), son of Herod Agrippa I (see Acts 12:1 ). He ruled over parts of Palestine from a.d. 53 until his death. His sister Bernice was widowed when her second husband, Herod King of Chalcis, died in a.d. 48. From then she lived with her brother. In an attempt to quiet rumors of an incestuous relationship between them, she resolved to marry Polemo of Cilicia, but she soon left him and returned to Herod Agrippa II. Their incestuous relationship became the gossip of Rome according to Josephus ( Ant. 20.7.3 [20.145-147]). The visit of Agrippa and Bernice gave Festus the opportunity to get some internal Jewish advice. Herod Agrippa II was a trusted adviser because he was known to be very loyal to Rome (Josephus, J. W. 2.16.4 [2.345-401]).


text: See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13 .


text: Here means “here in Caesarea.”


text: He had done nothing that deserved death. Festus’ opinion of Paul’s guilt is like Pilate’s of Jesus ( Luke 23:4, 14, 22 ).


text: There is irony here. How can Festus write anything definite about Paul, if he is guilty of nothing.


text: To my lord means “to His Majesty the Emperor.”