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Acts 25:26 Explained in Context

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Verse 26. Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write.

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Admits Festus lacks a definite charge to send the emperor.

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  • Acts 25:23–25:27

Acts 25:26 admits Festus lacks a definite charge to send the emperor; within Acts 25:23–25:27, the controlling movement is that Agrippa and Bernice enter with pomp before commanders and elites, Festus presents Paul as someone whose death has been demanded yet whom he finds undeserving of death, and seeks a charge to send with the prisoner.

Why It Needs Context

Admits Festus lacks a definite charge to send the emperor. Its responsible force depends on the full sequence, speaker, narrator framing, and outcome of Acts 25:23–25:27; it is connective evidence rather than a complete standalone teaching.

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Read Acts 25:23–25:27 — Public spectacle exposes an incoherent custody
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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 25:23–25:27, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus

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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 25:23-25:27

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