I was undecided renders a verb that indicates Festus felt thoroughly confused about what to do. Both Phillips (“I did not feel qualified”) and the New English Bible (“finding myself out of my depth”) express this idea on a rather high level of language.

Get information on these matters may be rendered as “learn more about these matters” or “find out exactly what was involved in these matters.”

Quoted with permission from Newman, Barclay M. and Nida, Eugene A. A Handbook on The Acts of the Apostles. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1972. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .