Thought for the Week

Scriptures to Read:

Acts 25:13-22

Acts 25:23-27

Acts 26:1-8

Acts 26:9-11

Acts 26:12-18

Acts 26:19-23

St. John 9:1-7 & 35-41

Governor Festus has invited King Herod Agrippa and Bernice to examine Paul to see how they might charge him with a crime against Rome. The hearing room scene was likely one for you to imagine. King Herod and Bernice would likely be wearing their royal purple robes, Governor Festus in his scarlet tunic and they would be surrounded by captains, centurions and leading citizens and courtiers in their finest. Certainly there would have been soldiers resplendent in their...