Matthew 27:15

As he stayed there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying, “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix;

When he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. This was during the days of unleavened bread.

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Then he released to them Barabbas, but Jesus he flogged and delivered to be crucified.

Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.

So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, “I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it.”

Pilate, wishing to please the multitude, released Barabbas to them, and handed over Jesus, when he had flogged him, to be crucified.

He said to them the third time, “Why? What evil has this man done? I have found no capital crime in him. I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

So Pilate then took Jesus, and flogged him.

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

Surely the wrath of man praises you. The survivors of your wrath are restrained.

There are many plans in a man’s heart, but Yahweh’s counsel will prevail.

There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

The fear of man proves to be a snare, but whoever puts his trust in Yahweh is kept safe.

I declare the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things that are not yet done. I say: My counsel will stand, and I will do all that I please.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard. They gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was gone. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Who is he who says, and it comes to pass, when the Lord doesn’t command it?

Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. The king spoke and said to Daniel, “Your God whom you serve continually, he will deliver you.”

When he would have put him to death, he feared the multitude, because they counted him as a prophet.

But if we say, ‘From men,’ we fear the multitude, for all hold John as a prophet.”

But they said, “Not during the feast, lest a riot occur among the people.”

and they bound him, and led him away, and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate, the governor.

When they had mocked him, they took the robe off him, and put his clothes on him, and led him away to crucify him.

For they said, “Not during the feast, because there might be a riot among the people.”

On the first day of unleavened bread, when they sacrificed the Passover, his disciples asked him, “Where do you want us to go and prepare that you may eat the Passover?”

Jesus said to them, “All of you will be made to stumble because of me tonight, for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’

Now at the feast he used to release to them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.

When they had mocked him, they took the purple off him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.

Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

But if we say, ‘From men,’ all the people will stone us, for they are persuaded that John was a prophet.”

He consented, and sought an opportunity to deliver him to them in the absence of the multitude.

The day of unleavened bread came, on which the Passover must be sacrificed.

I will therefore chastise him and release him.”

They led Jesus therefore from Caiaphas into the Praetorium. It was early, and they themselves didn’t enter into the Praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but might eat the Passover.

So then he delivered him to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus and led him away.

When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.

to do whatever your hand and your council foreordained to happen.

Then the captain went with the officers, and brought them without violence, for they were afraid that the people might stone them.

When he had arrested him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four squads of four soldiers each to guard him, intending to bring him out to the people after the Passover.

When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

But Paul said to them, “They have beaten us publicly without a trial, men who are Romans, and have cast us into prison! Do they now release us secretly? No, most certainly, but let them come themselves and bring us out!”

When he had landed at Caesarea, he went up and greeted the assembly, and went down to Antioch.

For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning today’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”

Coming to us and taking Paul’s belt, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, “The Holy Spirit says: ‘So the Jews at Jerusalem will bind the man who owns this belt, and will deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.’ ”

After these days we took up our baggage and went up to Jerusalem.

As they were trying to kill him, news came up to the commanding officer of the regiment that all Jerusalem was in an uproar.

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus, and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

But 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?”

For the king knows of these things, to whom also I speak freely. For I am persuaded that none of these things is hidden from him, for this has not been done in a corner.

Paul stayed two whole years in his own rented house and received all who were coming to him,

in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment.