Acts:25:13-26

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* And after some days King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and greeted Festus . * And as he was spending many days there , Festus laid before the king the charges against Paul , saying : "There is a certain man who was left a prisoner by Felix , * about whom the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me , when I was in Jerusalem , asking for punishment against him . * To them I answered , 'It is not a custom with Romans to deliver any man to destruction before the [one ] being accused may meet his accusers face to face , and may receive an opportunity for defense concerning the charge .' * "Therefore when they had assembled here , having made no delay , on the next day I took my seat at the judicial bench , and I commanded the man to be brought [in ]; * concerning whom , when the accusers stood , they brought no accusation of the [ ]things which I was supposing , * but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus , who had died , whom Paul affirmed to be living . * And being uncertain [as to ] the investigation concerning this , I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these charges . * But when Paul appealed that he be kept for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor , I commanded him to be kept until I may send him to Caesar ." * Then Agrippa said to Festus , "I also was wishing to hear the man myself .""Tomorrow ,"he said , "you shall hear him ." * Therefore on the next day , when Agrippa and Bernice had come with all pomp , and had entered into the auditorium together with the commanders and the prominent men of the city , and when Festus had commanded , Paul was brought . * And Festus said : "King Agrippa and all the men who are with us , observe this man about whom the people of the Jews petitioned me , both in Jerusalem and here , crying against [him ] that it is not fitting [for ] him to live any longer . * But when I came to understand him to have done nothing worthy of death , and also he had appealed to His Majesty the Emperor , I decided to send him . * About whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord . Therefore I have brought him before you , and especially before you King Agrippa , in order that when this hearing is finished I may have something to write .

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