44:025:006 And when he had tarried among them more
than ten days, he went
down
unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment
seat
commanded Paul to be brought.
44:025:007 And when he was come, the Jews which came
down from Jerusalem
stood
round about, and laid many and grievous complaints
against
Paul, which they could not prove.
44:025:008 While he answered for himself, Neither
against the law of the
Jews,
neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar,
have
I
offended any thing at all.
44:025:009 But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure,
answered Paul,
and
said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged
of
these
things before me?
44:025:010 Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar’s
judgment seat, where I
ought
to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong,
as thou
very
well knowest.
44:025:011 For if I be an offender, or have committed
any thing worthy of
death,
I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these
things
whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto
them.
I appeal unto Caesar.
44:025:012 Then Festus, when he had conferred with
the council, answered,
Hast
thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
44:025:013 And after certain days king Agrippa and
Bernice came unto
Caesarea
to salute Festus.
44:025:014 And when they had been there many days,
Festus declared Paul’s
cause
unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left
in
bonds
by Felix:
44:025:015 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the
chief priests and the
elders
of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment
against
him.
44:025:016 To whom I answered, It is not the manner
of the Romans to
deliver
any man to die, before that he which is accused have
the
accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for
himself
concerning the crime laid against him.
44:025:017 Therefore, when they were come hither,
without any delay on
the
morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the
man
to
be brought forth.
44:025:018 Against whom when the accusers stood up,
they brought none
accusation
of such things as I supposed:
44:025:019 But had certain questions against him of
their own
superstition,
and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul
affirmed
to be alive.
44:025:020 And because I doubted of such manner of
questions, I asked him
whether
he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these
matters.
44:025:021 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved
unto the hearing of
Augustus,
I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to
Caesar.


