What Does Acts 25:23 Mean in the King James?
And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul was brought forth.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The room is arranged around visible rank, but Paul enters only when he is led before its hearers.
THE MEANING
The scene puts splendor and rank on display around a public hearing. Agrippa and Bernice arrive with the leading men of the city, while Paul is brought in at Festus’s command. The verse lets you see how ceremony can surround a hearing while one person is summoned into view.
THE ROOT
ἤχθη
ēchthē
GROWS FROM
ἀγ- (ag-), from ἄγω (agō)
to lead, bring, or conduct
“brought forth” in this verse is ēchthē. The verb is passive: Paul is the one led into the room, at Festus’s command. Its word family also names gathering and leading away, making his entrance an act of being conducted into a public hearing.
ALSO GROWS
synágō: gather together
συνάγω
It shares the ἄγω (agō) family of leading or bringing; here the room gathers people around Paul as he is brought in.
apágō: lead away, bring away
ἀπάγω
It carries the same sense of conducting a person from one place to another, clarifying the movement in “was brought forth.”
φαντασίας
phantasías
GROWS FROM
φαντ-
phant-
appearance, display; making something visible
“pomp” in this verse is phantasías. The Greek names a conspicuous display: the ceremony makes status visible before the hearing begins. Its word family keeps the idea of appearance in view, sharpening how the scene stages who is seen before Paul is brought in.
ALSO GROWS
phantázō: make visible, display
φαντάζω
The verb shares the display sense behind the conspicuous ceremony surrounding Agrippa and Bernice.
phántasma: apparition, appearance
φάντασμα
This related word preserves the family’s focus on what appears or is made visible.
ἀκροατήριον
akroatḗrion
GROWS FROM
ἀκροα- (akroa-), from ἀκροάομαι (akroáomai)
to listen or hear attentively
“place of hearing” in this verse is akroatḗrion. The Greek names the room by what happens there: it is a place for hearing. With prominent citizens gathered and Paul led in, the scene is arranged around an audience as well as around rank.
ALSO GROWS
akroatḗs: hearer, listener
ἀκροατής
The audience hall’s name shares its listening root with the person who hears.
akróasis: hearing, listening
ἀκρόασις
This noun names the act for which the room is gathered.
THE PATTERN
A public hearing gathers visible authority around a person brought before it.
Then came there two women, that were harlots, unto the king, and stood before him.And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.THE THREAD
Then led they Jesus from Caiaphas unto the hall of judgment: and it was early; and they themselves went not into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled; but that they might eat the passover.John uses ἤγαγον (ēgagon), from ἄγω (agō), the same verb family as “was brought forth” here. Jesus is led to a judgment hall, and Paul is led into a hearing; the repeated root connects their entrances before public authority.
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