When Paul testified of the suffering and resurrection of Jesus, Festus said with a loud voice that he was mad. It was not that Festus had found out that Paul had committed some crime; he cried out like that because he could not accept the word Paul was preaching. The gospel of the water and the Spirit, preached straightforwardly, exactly as the word says, meets this kind of opposition anywhere. However, instead of being carried along by that outcry and raising his own voice along with it, Paul made it clear that he was speaking true words. In this passage we see what we must hold fast to when we encounter words that oppose the gospel. The fact of the salvation we are preaching must be clear, rather than our desire to be acknowledged by the other person.
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