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Acts 25 Bible study: To Caesar you shall go

Acts 25 names Jesus once, and only in Festus's words to the king: "one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive" (25:19). Paul's own words in the chapter are his defense and "I appeal to Caesar!" (25:11).

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“For if I have done wrong and have committed anything worthy of death, I don’t refuse to die; but if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!”
Acts 25:11 · World English Bible

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Festus had come "into the province" and gone up "to Jerusalem from Caesarea" (25:1). There "the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him, asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way." (25:2-3) (tap favor). Festus answered "that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea" (25:4). Then at Caesarea, "Festus, desiring to gain favor with the Jews, answered Paul and said, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be judged by me there concerning these things?”" (25:9). Paul answered that "no one can give me up to them" (25:11) (tap give up). In the Greek, behind favor (25:3, 25:9) is the noun charis, and behind give … up (25:11, 25:16) is a verb Strong's gives as "from G5485", that noun. The chapter tells these words and no more, and these notes don't say what was in anyone's mind.

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The Greek word behind it

ἐπικαλέομαιepikaleomaisay ep-ee-kal-EH-om-ahee

Strong's: "to entitle; by implication, to invoke (for aid, worship, testimony, decision, etc.)". Thayer lists 25:11 under "to appeal to one, make appeal unto". "I appeal to Caesar!" (25:11), and Festus answers, "You have appealed to Caesar." (25:12). This chapter has the verb four times (25:11, 25:12, 25:21, 25:25), and the appeal comes twice more in Acts: in Agrippa's words, "if he had not appealed to Caesar" (26:32), and in Paul's, "I was constrained to appeal to Caesar" (28:19). Acts has the verb 21 times (counted in RP2018), and the WEB doesn't always give it as appeal: "those who called on this name" (9:21).

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Acts 25 Bible study questions

  1. 1Paul said, "if none of those things is true that they accuse me of, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar!" (25:11). When have you had to speak up for yourself about something you didn't do? What helped you do it?
  2. 2Agrippa said, "I also would like to hear the man myself." (25:22). Why does it matter to hear someone for yourself, and not only what others say about them?
  3. 3Festus spoke of "one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive" (25:19). If someone asked you what you say about Jesus, what would you tell them?

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Last reviewed October 7, 2026. Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain. Hebrew and Greek words are checked against the original-language texts and public-domain lexicons. What we believe · Favor home