KJV King James Version
Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Acts 25:12
Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Then Festus conferred with his council and replied, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!”
WEB World English Bible
Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go.”
ASV American Standard Version
Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed unto Cæsar: unto Cæsar shalt thou go.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, ‘To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.’
Surrounding context — Acts 25
9 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
10 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest.
11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
12 Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
13 And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
14 And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed [me], desiring [to have] judgment against him.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ΤότεG5119 · totethenὁG3588 · hothe/this/whoΦῆστοςG5347 · PhēstosFestusσυλλαλήσαςG4814 · sullaleōto talk withμετὰG3326 · metawith/afterτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoσυμβουλίουG4824 · sumboulioncounsel/councilἀπεκρίθη·G611 · apokrinōto answerΚαίσαραG2541 · KaisarCaesarἐπικέκλησαι,G1941 · epikaleōto call (on)/nameἐπὶG1909 · epiupon/to/againstΚαίσαραG2541 · KaisarCaesarπορεύσῃ.¶G4198 · poreuōto travel
Cross-references
Philippians 1:20According to my earnest expectation and [my] hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but [that] with all boldness, as always, [so] now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether [it be] by life, or by death.Philippians 1:12-14But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things [which happened] unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;Acts 19:21After these things were ended, Paul purposed in the spirit, when he had passed through Macedonia and Achaia, to go to Jerusalem, saying, After I have been there, I must also see Rome.Acts 23:11And the night following the Lord stood by him, and said, Be of good cheer, Paul: for as thou hast testified of me in Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome.Lamentations 3:37Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?Acts 26:32Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.Acts 28:16And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.Romans 15:28-29When therefore I have performed this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will come by you into Spain.Isaiah 46:10-11Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:Psalm 76:10Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.Acts 25:21But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.Daniel 4:35And all the inhabitants of the earth [are] reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and [among] the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou?
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