THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES - Chapter 25 - Verse 14

Verse 14. Festus declared Paul's case. He did this, probably, because Agrippa, being a Jew, would be supposed to be interested in the case. It was natural that this trial should be a topic of conversation, and perhaps Festus might be disposed to ask what was proper to be done in such cases.

Left in bonds. Greek, "a prisoner"—desmiov. He was left in custody, probably in the keeping of a soldier, Ac 24:23,27.

{*} "bonds" "left a prisoner"