Acts 26:25

I am not mad, most excellent Festus — The style properly belonging to a Roman propretor. How inexpressibly beautiful is this reply! How strong! yet how decent and respectful! Mad men seldom call men by their names, and titles of honour. Thus also St. Paul refutes the charge. But utter the words of truth (confirmed in the next verse) and sobriety — The very reverse of madness. And both these remain, even when the men of God act with the utmost vehemence.

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1 Peter 2:21-23 ; 1 Peter 3:15 ; 1 Peter 3:9 ; Acts 23:26 ; Acts 24:3 ; John 8:49 ; Luke 1:3 ; Titus 1:9 ; Titus 2:7 ; Titus 2:8

²⁵ But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.

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Acts 26:25