Reference: Judgement-seat
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????. A place attached to the judgement-hall, where judgement was pronounced, speeches delivered, etc. It was on the ???? that Herod sat, when he made his oration. Mt 27:19; Joh 19:13; Ac 12:21; 18:12-17; 25:6-17. The floor of this place was doubtless of tesselated stones, which accounts for its being called the PAVEMENT in Joh 19:13. In the Hebrew it was called GABBATHA, which signifies elevated or raised platform. In Jas 2:6 the word is ?????????. (For the judgement-seat of Christ, see JUDGEMENT, No. 3.)
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Now while he was on the bench his wife sent to him to say, "Do not have anything to do with that upright man, for I have just had a painful experience in a dream about him."
When Pilate heard that, he had Jesus brought out and had him sit in the judge's seat in the place they call the Stone Platform, or in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
When Pilate heard that, he had Jesus brought out and had him sit in the judge's seat in the place they call the Stone Platform, or in Hebrew, Gabbatha.
So a day was fixed and on it Herod, dressed in his robes of state, took his seat on his throne in the theater, and made them an address,
While Gallio was governor of Greece the Jews made a concerted attack upon Paul, and brought him before the governor. "This fellow," they said, "is trying to induce people to worship God in ways that are against the law." read more. Before Paul could open his lips, Gallio said to the Jews, "If some misdemeanor or rascality were involved, Jews, you might reasonably expect me to listen to you. But as it is only a question of words and titles and your own law, you must look after it yourselves. I refuse to decide such matters." And he drove them away from the court. Then they all seized Sosthenes, the leader of the synagogue, and beat him in front of the court. But Gallio paid no attention to it.
After staying only eight or ten days there, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day took his place in the judge's chair, and ordered Paul brought in. When he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made a number of serious charges against him, which they could not substantiate. read more. Paul said in his own defense, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish Law or the Temple or the emperor." Then Festus, wishing to gratify the Jews, said to Paul, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there before me on these charges?" But Paul said, "I am standing before the emperor's court, where I ought to be tried. I have done the Jews no wrong, as you can easily see. If I am guilty and have done anything that deserves death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is no truth in the charges that these men make against me, no one can give me up to them; I appeal to the emperor." Then Festus after conferring with the council answered, "You have appealed to the emperor, and to the emperor you shall go!" Some time after, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea on a state visit to Festus, and as they stayed there several days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "who was left in prison by Felix, and when I was at Jerusalem the Jewish high priests and elders presented their case against him, and asked for his conviction. I told them that it was not the Roman custom to give anybody up until the accused met his accusers face to face and had a chance to defend himself against their accusations. So they came back here with me and the next day without losing any time I took my place in the judge's chair and ordered the man brought in.
But you humiliate the poor. Are not the rich your oppressors? Is it not they who drag you into court?