Kisah Para Rasul 25:4-5

25:4 Then Festus ¹  replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea, ²  and he himself intended to go there ³  shortly. 25:5 “So,” he said, “let your leaders ⁴  go down there ⁵  with me, and if this man has done anything wrong, ⁶  they may bring charges ⁷  against him.”

Kisah Para Rasul 23:30

23:30 When I was informed ⁸  there would be a plot ⁹  against this man, I sent him to you at once, also ordering his accusers to state their charges ¹⁰  against him before you.

[25:4]  ¹ sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.

[25:4]  ² sn Caesarea was a city on the coast of Palestine south of Mount Carmel (not Caesarea Philippi). See the note on Caesarea in Acts 10:1.

[25:4]  ³ tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text but is implied.

[25:5]  ⁴ tn Grk “let those who are influential among you” (i.e., the powerful).

[25:5]  ⁵ tn The word “there” is not in the Greek text, but is implied.

[25:5]  ⁶ tn Grk “and if there is anything wrong with this man,” but this could be misunderstood in English to mean a moral or physical defect, while the issue in context is the commission of some crime, something legally improper (BDAG 149 s.v. ἄτοπος 2).

[25:5]  ⁷ tn BDAG 533 s.v. κατηγορέω 1 states, “nearly always as legal t.t.: bring charges in court.” L&N 33.427 states for κατηγορέω, “to bring serious charges or accusations against someone, with the possible connotation of a legal or court context – ‘to accuse, to bring charges.”

[23:30]  ⁸ tn Grk “It being revealed to me.” The participle μηνυθείσης (mhnuqeish") has been taken temporally.

[23:30]  ⁹ tn The term translated “plot” here is a different one than the one in Acts 23:16 (see BDAG 368 s.v. ἐπιβουλή).

[23:30]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “the things against him.” This could be rendered as “accusations,” “grievances,” or “charges,” but since “ordered his accusers to state their accusations” sounds redundant in English, “charges” was used instead.