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Festus
then,
having arrived
in the province,
three
days
later
went
up to Jerusalem
from Caesarea.
2
And the chief priests
and the leading men
of the Jews
brought charges
against
Paul,
and they were urging
him,
3
requesting
a concession
against
Paul, that he might have him brought
to Jerusalem
(at the same time, setting
an ambush
to kill
him on the way).
4
Festus
then
answered
that Paul
was being kept in custody
at Caesarea
and that he himself
was about
to leave
shortly.
5
"Therefore,"
he said,
"let the influential men
among
you go
there with me, and if
there is anything
wrong
about
the man,
let them prosecute
him."
6
After he had spent
not more
than eight
or
ten
days
among
them, he went down
to Caesarea,
and on the next day
he took his seat
on the tribunal
and ordered
Paul
to be brought.
7
After Paul arrived,
the Jews
who had come down
from Jerusalem
stood around
him, bringing
many
and serious
charges
against
him which
they could
not prove,
8
while Paul
said in his own defense,
"I have committed
no
offense
either
against
the Law
of the Jews
or
against
the temple
or
against
Caesar."
9
But Festus,
wishing
to do
the Jews
a favor,
answered
Paul
and said,
"Are you willing
to go
up to Jerusalem
and stand trial
before
me on these
charges?"
10
But Paul
said,
"I am
standing
before
Caesar's
tribunal,
where
I ought
to be tried.
I have done
no
wrong
to the Jews,
as you also
very well
k
no
w.
11
"If,
then,
I am a wrongdoer
and have committed
anything
worthy
of death,
I do not refuse
to die;
but if
none
of those things is true of which
these men
accuse
me, no one
can
hand
me over to them. I appeal
to Caesar."
12
Then
when Festus
had conferred
with his council,
he answered,
"You have appealed
to Caesar
,
to Caesar
you shall go."
13
Now
when several
days
had elapsed,
King
Agrippa
and Bernice
arrived
at Caesarea
and paid their respects
to Festus.
14
While
they were spending
many
days
there,
Festus
laid
Paul's
case
before the king,
saying,
"There is a man
who was left
as a prisoner
by Felix;
15
and when I was at Jerusalem,
the chief priests
and the elders
of the Jews
brought charges
against
him, asking
for a sentence of condemnation
against
him.
16
"I answered
them that it is not the custom
of the Ro
man
s
to hand
over any
man
before
the accused
meets
his accusers
face to face
and has
an opportunity
to make his defense
against
the charges.
17
"So
after they had assembled
here,
I did not delay,
but on the next
day took my seat
on the tribunal
and ordered
the man
to be brought
before me.
18
"When the accusers
stood
up, they began bringing
charges
against
him not of such
crimes
as I was expecting,
19
but they simply had
some
points of disagreement
with him about
their own
religion
and about
a dead
man,
Jesus,
whom
Paul
asserted
to be alive.
20
"Being at a loss
how to investigate
such
matters, I asked
whether
he was willing
to go
to Jerusalem
and there
stand trial
on these
matters.
21
"But when Paul
appealed
to be held
in custody
for the Emperor's
decision,
I ordered
him to be kept
in custody
until
I send
him to Caesar."
22
Then
Agrippa
said to Festus,
"I also
would like
to hear
the man
myself."
"Tomorrow,"
he said,
"you shall hear
him."
23
So,
on the next day
when Agrippa
came
together
with Bernice
amid
great
pomp,
and entered
the auditorium
accompanied
by the commanders
and the prominent
men
of the city,
at the command
of Festus,
Paul
was brought
in.
24
Festus
said,
"King
Agrippa,
and
all
you gentlemen
here present
with us, you see
this man
about
whom
all
the people
of the Jews
appealed
to me, both
at Jerusalem
and here,
loudly declaring
that he ought
not to live
any longer.
25
"But I found
that he had committed
nothing
worthy
of death;
and since he himself
appealed
to the Emperor,
I decided
to send
him.
26
"Yet I have
nothing
definite
about
him to write
to my lord.
Therefore
I have brought him
before
you all and especially
before
you, King
Agrippa,
so
that after the investigation
has taken place,
I may have
so
mething
to write.
27
"For it seems
absurd
to me in sending
a prisoner,
not to indicate
also
the charges
against
him."
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