Acts 25:13
New International Version
A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

New Living Translation
A few days later King Agrippa arrived with his sister, Bernice, to pay their respects to Festus.

English Standard Version
Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.

Berean Standard Bible
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

Berean Literal Bible
Now some days having passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice came down to Caesarea, greeting Festus.

King James Bible
And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.

New King James Version
And after some days King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to greet Festus.

New American Standard Bible
Now when several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea, paying their respects to Festus.

NASB 1995
Now when several days had elapsed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus.

NASB 1977
Now when several days had elapsed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and paid their respects to Festus.

Legacy Standard Bible
Now when several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.

Amplified Bible
Now several days later, Agrippa [II] the king and Bernice [his sister] arrived at Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus [the new governor].

Christian Standard Bible
Several days later, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid a courtesy call on Festus.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
After some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid a courtesy call on Festus.

American Standard Version
Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at C�sarea, and saluted Festus.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And when some days passed, Agrippa The King and Bernice came down to Caesarea to inquire the welfare of Festus.

Contemporary English Version
A few days later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to visit Festus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And after some days, king Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to salute Festus.

English Revised Version
Now when certain days were passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and saluted Festus.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Later King Agrippa and Bernice came to the city of Caesarea to welcome Festus.

Good News Translation
Some time later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a visit of welcome to Festus.

International Standard Version
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to welcome Festus.

Literal Standard Version
And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea greeting Festus,

Majority Standard Bible
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

New American Bible
When a few days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea on a visit to Festus.

NET Bible
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.

New Revised Standard Version
After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to welcome Festus.

New Heart English Bible
Now when some days had passed, Agrippa the King and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, and greeted Festus.

Webster's Bible Translation
And after certain days, king Agrippa and Bernice came to Cesarea, to salute Festus.

Weymouth New Testament
A short time after this, Agrippa the king and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a complimentary visit to Festus;

World English Bible
Now when some days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and greeted Festus.

Young's Literal Translation
And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea saluting Festus,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Festus Consults King Agrippa
12Then Festus conferred with his council and replied, “You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!” 13After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus. 14Since they were staying several days, Festus laid out Paul’s case before the king: “There is a certain man whom Felix left in prison.…

Cross References
Acts 8:40
But Philip appeared at Azotus and traveled through that region, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

Acts 25:1
Three days after his arrival in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

Acts 25:4
But Festus replied, "Paul is being held in Caesarea, and I myself am going there soon.

Acts 25:12
Then Festus conferred with his council and replied, "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you will go!"

Acts 25:23
The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the auditorium, along with the commanders and leading men of the city. And Festus ordered that Paul be brought in.


Treasury of Scripture

And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to salute Festus.

king.

Acts 25:22,23
Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him…

Acts 26:1,27,28
Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth the hand, and answered for himself: …

to.

1 Samuel 13:10
And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.

1 Samuel 25:14
But one of the young men told Abigail, Nabal's wife, saying, Behold, David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master; and he railed on them.

2 Samuel 8:10
Then Toi sent Joram his son unto king David, to salute him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer, and smitten him: for Hadadezer had wars with Toi. And Joram brought with him vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and vessels of brass:

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Agrippa Arrived Bernice Berni'ce Caesarea Caesare'a Cesarea Complimentary Elapsed Festus Few Greeted Paid Passed Pay Salute Saluted Saluting Several Short Time Visit Welcome
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Acts 25
1. The Jews accuse Paul before Festus.
8. He answers for himself,
11. and appeals unto Caesar.
14. Afterwards Festus opens his matter to king Agrippa;
23. and he is brought forth.
25. Festus clears him of having done anything worthy of death.














(13) King Agrippa and Bernice.--Each of the characters thus brought on the scene has a somewhat memorable history. (1) The former closes the line of the Herodian house. He was the son of the Agrippa whose tragic end is related in Acts 12:20-23, and was but seventeen years of age at the time of his father's death, in A.D. 44. He did not succeed to the kingdom of Judaea, which was placed under the government of a procurator; but on the death of his uncle Herod, the king of Chalcis, in A.D. 48, received the sovereignty of that region from Claudius, and with it the superintendence of the Temple and the nomination of the high priests. Four years later he received the tetrarchies that had been governed by his great-uncles Philip and Lysanias (Luke 3:1), with the title of king. In A.D. 55 Nero increased his kingdom by adding some of the cities of Galilee (Jos. Ant. xix. 9, ? 1; xx. 1, ? 3; 8, ? 5). He lived to see the destruction of Jerusalem, and died under Trajan (A.D. 100) at the age of seventy-three. (2) The history of Bernice, or Berenice (the name seems to have been a Macedonian form of Pherenice) reads like a horrible romance, or a page from the chronicles of the Borgias. She was the eldest daughter of Herod Agrippa I., and was married at an early age to her uncle the king of Chalcis. Alliances of this nature were common in the Herodian house, and the Herodias of the Gospels passed from an incestuous marriage to an incestuous adultery. (See Note on Matthew 14:1.) On his death Berenice remained for some years a widow, but dark rumours began to spread that her brother Agrippa, who had succeeded to the principality of Chalcis, and who gave her, as in the instance before us, something like queenly honours, was living with her in a yet darker form of incest, and was reproducing in Judaea the vices of which his father's friend, Caligula, had set so terrible an example (Sueton. Calig. c. 24). With a view to screening herself against these suspicions she persuaded Polemon, king of Cilicia, to take her as his queen, and to profess himself a convert to Judaism, as Azizus had done for her sister Drusilla (see Note on Acts 24:24), and accept circumcision. The ill-omened marriage did not prosper. The queen's unbridled passions once more gained the mastery. She left her husband, and he got rid at once of her and her religion. Her powers of fascination, however, were still great, and she knew how to profit by them in the hour of her country's ruin. Vespasian was attracted by her queenly dignity, and yet more by the magnificence of her queenly gifts. His son Titus took his place in her long list of lovers. She came as his mistress to Rome, and it was said that he had promised her marriage. This, however, was more than even the senate of the empire could tolerate, and Titus was compelled by the pressure of public opinion to dismiss her, out his grief in doing so was matter of notoriety, "Dimisit invitus invitam" (Sueton. Titus, c. 7 Tacit. Hist. ii. 81; Jos. Ant. xx. 7, ? 3). The whole story furnished Juvenal with a picture of depravity which stands almost as a pendent to that of Messalina (Sat. vi. 155?9).

To salute Festus.--This visit was probably, as the word indicates, of the nature of a formal recognition of the new procurator on his arrival in the province.

Verse 13. - Now when certain days were passed for and after certain days, A.V.; Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at for King Agrippa and Bernice came unto, A.V.; and saluted for to salute, A.V. and T.R. Agrippa the king. Herod Agrippa II., son of Herod Agrippa I. (Acts 12.), and consequently brother of Drusilla (Acts 24:24). He was only seventeen at his father's death, and so not considered by Claudius a safe person to entrust his father's large dominions to. But he gave him Chalets, and afterwards, in exchange for it, other dominions. It was he who made Ismael the son of Phabi high priest, and who built the palace at Jerusalem which overlooked the temple, and gave great offence to the Jews. He was the last of the Herods, and reigned above fifty years. Bernice was his sister, but was thought to be living in an incestuous intercourse with him. She had been the wife of her uncle Herod, Prince of Chalets; and on his death lived with her brother. She then for a while became the wife of Polemo, King of Cicilia, but soon returned to Herod Agrippa. She afterwards became the mistress of Vespasian and of Titus in succession (Alford). And saluted; ἀσπασόμενοι, which reading Meyer and Alford both retain. The reading of the R.T. is ἀσπασάμενοι. It is quite in accordance with the position of a dependent king, that he should come and pay his respects to the new Roman governor at Caesarea.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
[After]
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

several
τινῶν (tinōn)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 5100: Any one, some one, a certain one or thing. An enclitic indefinite pronoun; some or any person or object.

days
Ἡμερῶν (Hēmerōn)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 2250: A day, the period from sunrise to sunset.

had passed,
διαγενομένων (diagenomenōn)
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Genitive Feminine Plural
Strong's 1230: To pass (of time); I continue through, intervene. From dia and ginomai; to elapse meanwhile.

King
βασιλεὺς (basileus)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 935: A king, ruler, but in some passages clearly to be translated: emperor. Probably from basis; a sovereign.

Agrippa
Ἀγρίππας (Agrippas)
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 67: Agrippa, i.e. Herod Agrippa II. Apparently from agrios and hippos; wild-horse tamer; Agrippas, one of the Herods.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

Bernice
Βερνίκη (Bernikē)
Noun - Nominative Feminine Singular
Strong's 959: From a provincial form of phero and nike; victorious; Bernice, a member of the Herodian family.

came down
κατήντησαν (katēntēsan)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 2658: From kata and a derivative of anti; to meet against, i.e. Arrive at.

to
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

Caesarea
Καισάρειαν (Kaisareian)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular
Strong's 2542: From Kaisar; Caesaria, the name of two places in Palestine.

to pay their respects
ἀσπασάμενοι (aspasamenoi)
Verb - Aorist Participle Middle - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 782: To greet, salute, pay my respects to, welcome. To enfold in the arms, i.e. to salute, to welcome.

to Festus.
Φῆστον (Phēston)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 5347: Festus. Of Latin derivation; festal; Phestus, a Roman.


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