Discovery BoxActs 25:22-23 
Context25:22 Agrippa 1 said to Festus, 2 “I would also like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he replied, 3 “you will hear him.”
25:23 So the next day Agrippa 4 and Bernice came with great pomp 5 and entered the audience hall, 6 along with the senior military officers 7 and the prominent men of the city. When Festus 8 gave the order, 9 Paul was brought in.
1 sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.
2 sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.
3 tn Grk “said.”
4 sn See the note on King Agrippa in 25:13.
5 tn Or “great pageantry” (BDAG 1049 s.v. φαντασία; the term is a NT hapax legomenon).
sn Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp. The “royals” were getting their look at Paul. Everyone who was anyone would have been there.
6 tn Or “auditorium.” “Auditorium” may suggest to the modern English reader a theater where performances are held. Here it is the large hall where a king or governor would hold audiences. Paul once spoke of himself as a “spectacle” to the world (1 Cor 4:8-13).
7 tn Grk “the chiliarchs” (officers in command of a thousand soldiers). In Greek the term χιλίαρχος (ciliarco") literally described the “commander of a thousand,” but it was used as the standard translation for the Latin tribunus militum or tribunus militare, the military tribune who commanded a cohort of 600 men.
8 sn See the note on Porcius Festus in 24:27.
9 tn Grk “and Festus ordering, Paul was brought in.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was begun in the translation, and καί (kai) has not been translated. The participle κελεύσαντος (keleusanto") has been taken temporally.
