I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.
Parallel translations
- WEB “I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.
- BSB he said, “I will hear your case when your accusers arrive.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s Praetorium.
- NKJV he said, “I will hear you when your accusers also have come.” And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s Praetorium.
- NASB he said, “I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive as well,” giving orders for Paul to be kept in Herod’s Praetorium.
- NLT “I will hear your case myself when your accusers arrive,” the governor told him. Then the governor ordered him kept in the prison at Herod’s headquarters.
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Quick answer
Felix agrees to hear Paul fully once his accusers arrive and orders him held in Herod's palace. The case is set for a proper hearing with both sides present.
Overview
Roman justice required accusers to appear in person, so Felix defers judgment. Herod's palace (the Praetorium built by Herod the Great) now served as the governor's residence and held prisoners awaiting trial. Though confined, Paul is kept safe and given a legitimate forum, again showing God ordering events so that his witness may be heard and the truth made plain.
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- Acts 23:30And when it was told me how that the Jews laid wait for the man, I sent straightway to thee, and gave commandment to his accusers also to say before thee what they had against him. Farewell.
- Acts 25:16To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
- Matt 27:27Then the soldiers of the governor took Jesus into the common hall, and gathered unto him the whole band of soldiers.
- Acts 24:22And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter.
- Acts 24:1And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.
- Acts 24:24–27And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
- Matt 2:16Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.
- Matt 2:1Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
- Matt 2:3When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
- John 18:28Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.
- Acts 24:10Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
- Acts 24:19Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.
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