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- Acts
- Chapter 25
- Verse 19
But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
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Gill's Exposition
But had certain questions against him of their own superstition,.... Or religion; as about their law, which they said Paul had spoke against; and about their temple, which they pretended he had…
Barnes' Notes
But had certain questions - Certain inquiries, or litigated and disputed subjects; certain points of dispute in which they differed - ζητήματα τινα zētēmata tina. Of their own superstition -…
Adam Clarke
Questions - of their own superstition - Περι της ιδιας δειδιδαιμονιας; Questions concerning their own religion. Superstition meant something as bad among the Romans as it does among us; and is it…
We have here the preparation that was made for another hearing of Paul before King Agrippa, not in order to his giving judgment upon him, but in order to his giving advice concerning him, or rather…
Cambridge Bible
of their own superstition[R. V.religion]. The noun used here is cognate to the adjective employed by St Paul in speaking to the Athenians (Act 17:22). It is a term which might be employed by any one…
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