Paul’s arrest, imprisonment and trials (which take up a large part of the latter stages of Acts) arise primarily because of the fact that he consistently preached about the resurrection of Jesus and how in Jesus all the prophecies of the Old Testament about God’s...

The Bible calls people to obey civil authorities as God’s representatives on earth (see Romans 13), but also makes it clear that God’s laws supersede civil laws. The line between the two can cause clashes, for God’s kingdom is very different from the world’s ways of...

Both Paul and Festus (the successor to Felix as the Roman procurator in charge of Paul’s imprisonment) found themselves on the horns of a dilemma. Strictly speaking, Paul should have already been acquitted now, because he had not been found guilty of any crime, either...