Acts 25:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver ('surrender') any man [to die]. (The bracketed words [eis (G1519) apooleian (G684)] are insufficiently supported, and seem an explanatory gloss.)

Before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence , [ topon (G5117 ) - later Greek in this sense] "to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him."

Acts 25:16

16 To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.