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Acts 25:13-15
New Catholic Bible
Acts 25:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 Paul’s Fourth Trial—before Agrippa.[a] Some days later, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus. 14 Since they spent several days there, Festus raised the subject of Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a man here who was left in custody by Felix. 15 When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him and requested his condemnation.
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- Acts 25:13 Paul has already appeared in the presence of Drusilla (Acts 24:24); this time, he meets Agrippa and Bernice. The three children of Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12:1) have made his acquaintance. Bernice has also become famous because of her ties to Titus. The meeting takes place in a formal setting. The Roman governor probably thinks that his guests who are Jewish in origin can shed light on the dispute. Before giving a kind of curriculum of life, Paul places into evidence the Christian belief in the resurrection and shows Christianity as the fulfillment of the Jewish hope for the betterment of all human beings.
We now read the third account of Paul’s conversion (see Acts 9:1-19; 22:1-21), which puts more emphasis on Paul’s mission being in accord with prophetic callings in the Old Testament. It is a splendid Christian biography of Paul, a vision of Christianity as the fulfillment of the destiny of Israel, and a profession of faith in the Resurrection of Jesus being for the salvation of all human beings.
