025:015 about whom, when I went to Jerusalem, the High Priests
and the Elders of the Jews made representations to me,
begging that sentence might be pronounced against him.
025:016 My reply was that it is not the custom among the Romans to give up
any one for punishment before the accused has had his accusers
face to face, and has had an opportunity of defending himself
against the charge which has been brought against him.
025:017 "When, therefore, a number of them came here, the next day
I took my seat on the tribunal, without any loss of time,
and ordered the man to be brought in.
025:018 But, when his accusers stood up, they did not charge him
with the misdemeanours of which I had been suspecting him.
025:019 But they quarrelled with him about certain matters connected
with their own religion, and about one Jesus who had died, but--
so Paul persistently maintained--is now alive.
025:020 I was at a loss how to investigate such questions, and asked
Paul whether he would care to go to Jerusalem and there stand
his trial on these matters.
025:021 But when Paul appealed to have his case kept for the Emperor's
decision, I ordered him to be kept in prison until I could
send him up to Caesar."
025:022 "I should like to hear the man myself," said Agrippa.
"to-morrow," replied Festus, "you shall." Accordingly, the next day,
Agrippa and Bernice came in state
025:023 and took their seats in the Judgement Hall, attended by the Tribunes
and the men of high rank in the city; and, at the command
of Festus, Paul was brought in.
025:024 Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present
with us, you see here the man about whom the whole nation
of the Jews made suit to me, both in Jerusalem and here,