In this week's passage, Acts 25:7-21, Paul is tried by Festus. We don't hear many details about the charges or Paul's response. What is clear is that the charges that the Jews bring were not convincing to Festus, but he still wants to please the Jews and take Paul to Jerusalem for trial. Once Paul declared that he needs to be tried by Caesar, after consultation, Festus decided that was where Paul would then be tried. Paul did declare his willingness to be put to death, if the law declared that he should be put to death. Very different than the modern death row inmate who frequently use a profession of faith in Jesus Christ as a reason that they should not be put to death. With the appeal to Caesar, Festus was in a quandary. He had no charges against Paul, but he was not willing to let him go. When his brother-in-law, King Agrippa, came, he tried to get him to help him determine what to charge Paul with. Lysias, Felix, Festus and Agrippa do not know how to get out of the situation where they know that they are being unjust, but they are too afraid to offend the Jews to do the right thing. All their plotting to please the Jews, actually results in what Jesus had declared to Paul to be fulfilled. That he would testify to Caesar about the Lord Jesus Christ.
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