And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
Ver. 24. That he ought not to live any longer] All malice is bloody, and is therefore called murder; because it wisheth him out of the world whom it maligneth. See Trapp on " Act 25:7 "