Acts 25
25:1Then Festus, having set foot in the jurisdiction, after three days ascended unto Jerusalem from Caesarea.
25:2And the chief priest revealed to him and the foremost men of the Jews the things against Paul, and they appealed to him,
25:3asking a favor against him, that he should fetch him unto Jerusalem, while making an ambush to do away with him along the way.
25:4Then Festus responded for Paul to be kept in Caesarea, but he himself was about to quickly go forth.
25:5The ones then mighty among you, says he, having gone down too, if anything is out of place in this man, let them accuse him.
25:6And having spent time among them more than ten days, having gone down unto Caesarea, the next day having sat upon the rostrum, he bid Paul to be led in.
25:7And he being come, there stood around the Jews having come down from Jerusalem, with many and grievous accusations bringing against Paul, which they were not able to exhibit,
25:8while of his pleading, saying that, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar in anything I sinned.
25:9And Festus, wanting to lay down favor with the Jews, responding to Paul, said, Are you willing to ascend unto Jerusalem to be judged by me there concerning these things?
25:10And Paul said, Unto the rostrum of Caesar I am standing, of which it is necessary for me to be judged. To Jews I did no wrong, as also you well realize.
25:11For if indeed I do wrong, and have acted in anything worthy of death, I do not ask pardon to die; but if there is nothing of which they charge me, no one can grant me to them. To Caesar I call upon.
25:12Then Festus conversing together with the council responded, To Caesar you have called upon, unto Caesar you shall go.
25:13And some days having elapsed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea, saluting Festus.
25:14And when they spent many days there, Festus the king presented the things relating to Paul, saying, There is a certain man being left by Felix, a prisoner;
25:15concerning whom on my being in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews revealed, asking for punishment against him.
25:16To whom I answered that, It is not the custom with Romans to grant any man for destruction, before the practice the one being accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive a place of defense concerning the indictment.
25:17Then they having come here, not making delay, in the next day having seated at the rostrum, I bid the man to be led in;
25:18concerning whom, the accusers standing up, brought no accusation which I suspected;
25:19but certain matters concerning their own reverence of God they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus having died, whom Paul maintained to be alive.
25:20And I being perplexed concerning this inquiry, said, Shall he be willing to go unto Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things?
25:21But Paul, having called upon himself to be kept for the inquiry of Augustus, I bid to keep him until of which time I should send him forth to Caesar.
25:22And Agrippa said to Festus, I wanted also myself to hear the man. And the morrow, he says, you shall hear him.
25:23Then in the next day Agrippa and Bernice having come with much visible display, and having entered into the auditorium, with both the commanders, and men, the ones of prominence being of the city, and Festus having bid, Paul was led in.
25:24And Festus says, O king Agrippa, and all the men being present with us, you view this one concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews interceded with me in both Jerusalem and here, yelling aloud he must not live any longer.
25:25And I having perceived he to have done nothing worthy of death, and this one also himself having called upon Augustus, I judged to send him.
25:26Concerning whom I have not anything safe to write to my lord. Therefore I led him unto you, and especially unto you, O king Agrippa, so that the examination having taken place, I should have something to write.
25:27For it seems illogical to me to send forth a prisoner, and not signifying the accusations against him.