rather they had certain points of dispute with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who was dead, but whom Paul asserted to be alive. [acts 25:19] Jesus is alive! take a moment, pray, thank the Lord that he gave himself up for you....
now when some days had passed, agrippa the king and bernice arrived at caesarea and greeted festus. and as they stayed there many days, festus laid paul’s case before the king, saying, “there is a man left prisoner by felix, and when i was at jerusalem, the...
paul argued in his defense, “neither against the law of the jews, nor against the temple, nor against caesar have i committed any offense.” but festus, wishing to do the jews a favor, said to paul, “do you wish to go up to jerusalem and there be tried on these charges...
now three days after festus had arrived in the province, he went up to jerusalem from caesarea. and the chief priests and the principal men of the jews laid out their case against paul, and they urged him, asking as a favor against paul that he summon him to...
for if we have been united with him in a death like his, we shall certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. we know that our old self was crucified with him in order that the body of sin might be brought to nothing, so that we would no longer be...
