Thematic Bible: Allusions to judicial affairs of


Thematic Bible



When we arrived at Rome they allowed Paul to have a house for himself and the armed man who kept watch over him. Verse ConceptsArrestingempiresGuardsHousesIsolated Persons

Then the military commander came near and laid hold on him. He commanded that he be bound with two chains. He asked who he was and what he had done. Verse Conceptsevangelists, ministry ofChainsIron ChainsInterrogatingWho Is This?What Do You Do?Two Other Things

The Lord grants mercy to the house of Onesiphorus: for he often refreshed me, and was not ashamed of my chains. Verse ConceptsChainsIntimacyFriendship, Examples OfIron ChainsBe Merciful!People Refreshedempathy

It was the night before Herod was to bring him to trial. Peter was sleeping between two soldiers. He was bound with two chains. Sentries stood guard at the prison door. Verse ConceptsLeisure, And PastimesSleep, PhysicalGod Is ImmanentIron ChainsDuring One NightTwo Other ThingsTwo Other MenSleeping Peacefullytrailsjail

Pilate replied: Take him yourselves and judge him according to your law. The Jews said: It is not lawful for us to put any man to death. Verse ConceptsLimitednessDeath Penalty For KillingFulfilling The Lawautonomy

You have a custom that I release someone to you at the Passover. Do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews? Verse ConceptsCustomChrist Is King Of IsraelPeople Releasing Others

Pilate said: Will you not speak to me? Do you know I have the power to release you and the power to impale you? Verse ConceptsHuman Authority, Nature OfCourage, Examples OfChrist Being SilentAuthority Delegated To PeoplePeople Releasing Others

After they impaled Jesus the soldiers took his garments and made four parts, one for each soldier. The coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. Verse ConceptsClothBody Of Christ, Physical DeathCrucifixion, Of ChristDressInner GarmentsDividing PlunderGarmentscrucifixion


He said: The Jewish authorities have agreed to ask you tomorrow to take Paul down to the Council. They want you to pretend the Council wants to get more accurate information about him. Verse ConceptsAgreement, Example OfInvestigating

Provide some horses for Paul to ride and get him safely through to Governor Felix. Then the commander wrote a letter that went like this: Claudius Lysias to His Excellency, Governor Felix: Greetings. read more.
The Jews seized this man and were about to kill him. I learned that he is a Roman citizen, so I went with my soldiers and rescued him.

he said, I will hear you fully when your accusers arrive. He commanded him to be kept in the praetorian of Herod. Verse ConceptsGuardsPalacesPunishment, Legal Aspects Of

I told them it is not the Roman practice to deliver any man to die before his accusers face him. He should answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him. When they came before me, without any delay I sat in judgment, and commanded the man to be brought in. When the accusers took the stand they produced no charge of the wicked things I supposed about him. read more.
They had questions against him about their own superstition. They had one about Jesus, who is dead, but Paul affirmed to be alive.

The Roman commander ordered his men to take Paul into the barracks. He told them to whip him in order to find out why the Jews were screaming like this against him. Verse ConceptsScourgingInterrogatingChiliarchsWhy Do Others Do This?serenity

At once the men who were going to question Paul drew back from him. The commander was frightened when he found out that Paul was a Roman citizen and that he had put him in chains. Verse ConceptsChainsTying UpCitizens

He set Barabbas free. He had Jesus whipped. Then he commanded that he be put to death on the stake. Then the palace guard took Jesus into the open square and gathered their squad together.

If I am a wrongdoer, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if charges brought against me by the Jews are not true no man has the right to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar. Then Festus conferred with his council and answered: Have you appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go.

Pilate wrote a title and put it on the stake. There it was written, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS. Verse ConceptsCrucifixion, Of ChristSarcasmMessianic Titles, King Of The JewsInscriptionsChrist Is King Of IsraelThe Cross

Then Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar. Verse ConceptsPeople Releasing Others