Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Acts 25:22 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 22. 22Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
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Quick Meaning
Records Agrippa's desire to hear Paul and Festus's promise for the next day.
Read It With
- Acts 25:13–25:22
Acts 25:22 records Agrippa's desire to hear Paul and Festus's promise for the next day; within Acts 25:13–25:22, the controlling movement is that Agrippa and Bernice visit, Festus reviews the inherited case, describes a dispute about religion and a dead Jesus whom Paul says lives, and Agrippa asks to hear Paul.
Why This Verse Appears Here
Records Agrippa's desire to hear Paul and Festus's promise for the next day. This precise contribution belongs inside “Festus explains the unresolved case to Agrippa” because Agrippa and Bernice visit, Festus reviews the inherited case, describes a dispute about religion and a dead Jesus whom Paul says lives, and Agrippa asks to hear Paul.
What Remains True
Because Acts 25:22 records Agrippa's desire to hear Paul and Festus's promise for the next day, faithful witness must preserve the verse's speaker, narrated setting, people affected, and the full movement of Acts 25:13–25:22 before drawing an enduring claim.
How It Can Shape Life
- For Acts 25:22, first identify this verse role—records Agrippa's desire to hear Paul and Festus's promise for the next day; then explain the contextual meaning in Acts 25:13–25:22; preserve the proportionate truth about accountable witness; finally apply this boundary: The summary does not make political misunderstanding innocent, reduce resurrection to trivia, or authorize gossip about Agrippa and Bernice beyond evidence.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Acts 25:13–25:22 — Festus explains the unresolved case to AgrippaSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
These are the sources used directly for this lens. Language, grammar, disagreements, and the complete source shelf remain attached to the full thought-unit research record.
Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and unit coverage.
Exact location: Acts 25:13–25:22, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗Greek textual evidence
The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition
Michael W. Holmes, editor; Society of Biblical Literature and Logos
Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010
Supports: Greek wording and punctuation control, without pretending one edition is a complete apparatus.
Exact location: SBLGNT official text, Acts 25:13-25:22
Open the Acts Greek text file ↗Lexical and grammatical evidence
STEP Bible Data
Tyndale House Cambridge
Tyndale House Cambridge, repository snapshot verified 2026
Supports: Morphology and lexical cross-check for words explicitly discussed in this unit.
Exact location: STEP Bible Data, TAGNT rows for Acts 25:13-25:22
Open source ↗open translation and translator notes
NET Bible First Edition Notes: Acts
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-attached textual, translation, language, geography, chronology, and historical notes actually printed for the unit.
Exact location: NET Bible First Edition Acts PDF, printed pp. 2104-2205, exact tn/tc/sn entries attached to 25:13–25:22
Open source ↗