the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Acts 25:13
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A few days later, King Agrippa stopped by with his sister Bernice to pay respects to the new Roman governor.
Now when several days had elapsed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus.
Now when several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.
Now when some days had gone by, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea and went to see Festus.
And when certain days had elapsed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to salute Festus.
And after some days King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to greet Festus.
After some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid a courtesy call on Festus.
Now when some days had passed, Agrippa, the King, and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.
And after certain days, king Agrippa and Bernice came to Cesarea, to salute Festus.
A short time after this, Agrippa the king and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a complimentary visit to Festus;
And after certaine dayes, king Agrippa and Bernice, came vnto Cesarea, to salute Festus.
And some days having passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, greeting Festus.
After certayne dayes came kynge Agrippa and Bernice to Cesarea to welcome Festus.
Some days after, king Agrippa and Bernice came to Cesarea to make Festus a visit.
A few days later King Agrippa and his wife, Bernice, visited Caesarea to welcome Festus to his new post. After several days, Festus brought up Paul's case to the king. "I have a man on my hands here, a prisoner left by Felix. When I was in Jerusalem, the high priests and Jewish leaders brought a bunch of accusations against him and wanted me to sentence him to death. I told them that wasn't the way we Romans did things. Just because a man is accused, we don't throw him out to the dogs. We make sure the accused has a chance to face his accusers and defend himself of the charges. So when they came down here I got right on the case. I took my place in the courtroom and put the man on the stand.
Now several days later, Agrippa [II] the king and Bernice [his sister] arrived at Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus [the new governor].
Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus.
Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Berni'ce arrived at Caesare'a to welcome Festus.
After a certayne dayes kinge Agrippa and Bernice came vnto Cesarea to salute Festus.
Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus.
And after certain days, king Agrippa and Bernice came to Cesarea, to salute Festus.
And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea saluting Festus,
A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to visit Festus.
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to visit Festus.
After some days, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.
And after certaine dayes, King Agrippa and Bernice came downe to C?sarea to salute Festus.
Some days later, King A-grip''pa and Ber-ni''ce came down to Cs-a-re''a to greet Festus.
Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to welcome Festus.
AND when days had been, Agripos the king and Bernike came down to Cesarea to salute [fn] Festos.
And when [fn] days had passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea to salute Festus.
A few days later King Agrippa arrived with his sister, Bernice, to pay their respects to Festus.
After a few days, King Agrippa and his wife, Bernice, came down to Caesarea. They went to Festus to greet him.
Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus.
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcome Festus.
And, some days having gone by, Agrippa the king and Bernice came down to Caesarea, to salute Festus.
And after some days, king Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea, to salute Festus.
Now after some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcome Festus.
And after certayne dayes, King Agrippa and Bernice came vnto Cesarea, to salute Festus.
A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to visit Festus.
Now when several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea, paying their respects to Festus.
Some time later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a visit of welcome to Festus.
And whanne summe daies weren passid, Agrippa kyng, and Beronyce camen doun to Cesarie, to welcome Festus.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
king: Acts 25:22, Acts 25:23, Acts 26:1, Acts 26:27, Acts 26:28
unto: 1 Samuel 13:10, 1 Samuel 25:14, 2 Samuel 8:10, 2 Kings 10:13, Mark 15:18
Reciprocal: Genesis 28:10 - General Acts 10:1 - in Acts 12:19 - he went Acts 21:7 - and saluted
Cross-References
These are the sons of Ishmael, and these are their names, by their towns, and by their castles; twelve princes according to their nations.
And these are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gathered unto his people.
And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and he was faint:
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.
And Bashemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebajoth.
Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit: let the inhabitants of the rock sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.
All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And after certain days,.... Several days after the above appeal made by Paul:
King Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus: this King Agrippa was the son of Herod Agrippa, who killed James the brother of John, and of whose death mention is made in Acts 12:1 the Jewish chronologer h calls him Agrippa the Second, the son of Agrippa the First, the fifth king of the family of Herod: he was not king of Judea, this was reduced again into a province by Claudius; and upon the death of his uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, he was by the said emperor made king of that place, who afterwards removed him from thence to a greater kingdom, and gave him the tetrarchy, which was Philip's, his great uncle's; namely, Batanea, Trachonitis, and Gaulanitis, to which he added the kingdom of Lysanias; (see Luke 3:1) and the province which Varus had; and to these Nero added four cities, with what belonged to them; in Peraea, Abila and Julias, and in Galilee, Tarichea and Tiberias i. The Jewish writers often make mention of him, calling him, as here, King Agrippa;
Luke 3:1- :, and so does Josephus k. According to the above chronologer l he was had to Rome by Vespasian, when he went to be made Caesar; and was put to death by him, three years and a half before the destruction of the temple; though others say he lived some years after it: and some of the Jewish writers affirm, that in his days the temple was destroyed m. Agrippa, though he was a Jew, his name was a Roman name; Augustus Caesar had a relation of this name n, who had a son of the same name, and a daughter called Agrippina; and Herod the great being much obliged to the Romans, took the name from them, and gave it to one of his sons, the father of this king: the name originally was given to such persons, who at their birth came forth not with their heads first, as is the usual way of births, but with their feet first, and which is accounted a difficult birth; and "ab aegritudine", from the grief, trouble, and weariness of it, such are called Agrippas o. Bernice, who is said to be with King Agrippa, is not the name of a man, as some have supposed, because said to sit in the judgment hall with the king, but of a woman; so called, in the dialect of the Macedonians, for Pheronice, which signifies one that carries away the victory; and this same person is, in Suetonius p, called Queen Beronice, for whom Titus the emperor is said to have a very great love, and was near upon marrying her: she was not wife of Agrippa, as the Arabic version reads, but his sister; his father left besides him, three daughters, Bernice, Mariamne, and Drusilla, which last was the wife of Felix, Acts 24:24. Bernice was first married to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis q, and after his death to Polemon, king of Cilicia, from whom she separated, and lived in too great familiarity with her brother Agrippa, as she had done before her second marriage, as was suspected r, to which incest Juvenal refers s; and with whom she now was, who came together to pay a visit to Festus, upon his coming to his government, and to congratulate him upon it.
h Ganz Tzemach David, par. 1. fol. 26. 1. i Joseph. de Bello Jud. l. 2. c. 11. sect. 5. & c. 12. sect. 1. 8. & c. 13. sect. 2. k Antiqu. l. 20. c. 8. sect. 1. l Tzemach David, ib. col. 2. m Jarchi & Bartenora in Misn. Sota, c. 7. sect. 8. n Sueton. in Vita Augusti, c. 63, 64. o A. Gell. Noct. Attic. l. 16. c. 16. p In Vita Titi, c. 7. q Joseph. Antiqu. l. 19. c. 5. sect. 1. & c. 9. sect. 1. & de Bello Jud. l. 2. c. 11. sect. 5, 6. r Antiqu. l. 20. c. 6. sect. 3. s Satyr 6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
After certain days, king Agrippa - This Agrippa was the son of Herod Agrippa Acts 12:1, and great-grandson of Herod the Great. His mother’s name was Cypros (Josephus, Jewish Wars, book 2, chapter 11, section 6). When his father died he was at Rome with the Emperor Claudius. Josephus says that the emperor was inclined to bestow upon him all his father’s dominions, but was dissuaded by his ministers. The reason of this was, that it was thought imprudent to bestow so large a kingdom on so young a man, and one so inexperienced. Accordingly, Claudius sent Cuspius Fadus to be procurator of Judea and of the entire kingdom (Josephus, Antiq., book 19, chapter 9, section 2). When Herod, the brother of his father, Agrippa the Great, died in the eighth year of the reign of Claudius, his kingdom - the kingdom of Chalcis - was bestowed by Claudius on Agrippa (Josephus, Antiq., book 20, chapter 5, section 2). Afterward, he bestowed on him the tetrarchy of Philip and Batanea, and added to it Trachonitis with Abila (Antiq., book 20, chapter 7, section 1). After the death of Claudius, Nero, his successor, added to his dominions Julias in Perea and a part of Galilee. Agrippa had been brought up at Rome, and was strongly attached to the Romans. When the troubles commenced in Judea which ended in the destruction of Jerusalem, he did all that he could to preserve peace and order, but in vain. He afterward joined his troops with those of the Romans, and assisted them at the destruction of Jerusalem. After the captivity of that city he went to Rome with his sister Bernice, where he ended his days. He died at the age of seventy years, about 90 a.d. His manner of living with his sister gave occasion to reports respecting him very little to his advantage.
And Bernice - She was sister of Agrippa. She had been married to Herod, king of Chalcis, her own uncle by her father’s side. After his death she proposed to Polemon, king of Pontus and part of Cilicia, that if he would become circumcised she would marry him. He complied, but she did not continue long with him. After she left him she returned to her brother Agrippa, with whom she lived in a manner such as to excite scandal. Josephus directly charges her with incest with her brother Agrippa (Antiq., book 20, chapter 7, section 3).
To salute Festus - To show him respect as the governor of Judea.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Acts 25:13. King Agrippa — This was the son of Herod Agrippa, who is mentioned Acts 12:1. Upon the death of his father's youngest brother, Herod, he succeeded him in the kingdom of Chalcis, by the favour of the Emperor Claudius: Jos. Antiq. lib. xx. cap. 4, s. 2; and Bell. lib. ii. cap. 12, s. 1. Afterwards, Claudius removed him from that kingdom to a larger one, giving him the tetrarchy of Philip, which contained Trachonitis, Batanea, and Gaulonitis. He gave him, likewise, the tetrarchy of Lysanias, and the province which Varus had governed. Jos. Antiq. lib. xx. cap. 6, s. 1; Bell. lib. ii. cap. 19, s. 8. Nero made a farther addition, and gave him four cities, Abila, Julias in Peraea, Tarichaea and Tiberias in Galilee: Jos. Antiq. lib. xx. cap. 7, s. 4; Bell. lib. ii. cap 13, s. 2. Claudius gave him the power of appointing the high priest among the Jews; Joseph. Antiq. lib. xx. cap. 1, s. 3; and instances of his exercising this power may be seen in Joseph. Antiq. lib. xx. cap. 7, s. 8, 11. This king was strongly attached to the Romans, and did every thing in his power to prevent the Jews from rebelling against them; and, when he could not prevail, he united his troops to those of Titus, and assisted in the siege of Jerusalem: he survived the ruin of his country several years. See Bishop Pearce and Calmet.
Bernice, or, as she is sometimes called, Berenice, was sister of this Agrippa, and of the Drusilla mentioned Acts 24:24: She was at first married to her uncle Herod, king of Chalcis, Jos. Antiq. lib. xix. cap. 9, s. 1; and, on his death, went to live with her brother Agrippa, with whom she was violently suspected to lead an incestuous life. Juvenal, as usual, mentions this in the broadest manner-Sat. vi. ver. 155:-
Deinde adamas notissimus, et Berenices
In digito factus pretiosior: hunc dedit olim
Barbarus incestae, dedit hunc Agrippa sorori.
"Next, a most valuable diamond, rendered more precious by being put on the finger of Berenice; a barbarian gave it to this incestuous woman formerly; and Agrippa gave this to his sister."
Josephus mentions the report of her having criminal conversation with her brother Agrippa, φημης επισχουσης, ὁτι τἀδελφῳ συνῃει. To shield herself from this scandal, she persuaded Polemo, king of Cilicia, to embrace the Jewish religion, and marry her; this he was induced to do on account of her great riches; but she soon left him, and he revolted to heathenism: see Jos. Antiq. lib. xx. cap. 7, s. 3. After this, she lived often with her brother, and her life was by no means creditable; she had, however, address to ingratiate herself with Titus Vespasian, and there were even rumours of her becoming empress-propterque insignem reginae Berenices amorem, cui etiam nuptias pollicitus ferebatur.-Suet. in Vit. Titi. Which was prevented by the murmurs of the Roman people: Berenicen statim ab urbe dimisit, invitus invitam.-Ibid. Tacitus also, Hist. lib. ii. cap. 1, speaks of her love intrigue with Titus. From all accounts she must have been a woman of great address; and, upon the whole, an exceptionable character.
