Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Acts 25:23

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23. when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp —in the same city in which their father, on account of his pride, had perished, eaten up by worms [WETST]. with the chief captains —(See on Acts 25:2 ). JOSEPHUS [ Wars of the Jews, 3.4.2] says that five cohorts, whose full complement was one thousand men, were stationed at Cæsarea. principal men of the city —both Jews and Romans. "This was the most dignified and influential audience Paul had yet addressed, and the prediction ( Acts 9:15 ) was fulfilled, though afterwards still more remarkably at Rome ( Acts 27:24 ; 2 Timothy 4:16 ; 2 Timothy 4:17 ) [WEBSTER and WILKINSON]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-24" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-act-25-004

절 (explains)

bible-text/act-25-23

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
• evidence_grade: T_theological