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1 Now when Fes­tus was come into the province, af­ter three days he as­cend­ed from Cae­sarea to Jerusalem. 2 Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews in­formed him against Paul, and be­sought him, 3 And de­sired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, lay­ing wait in the way to kill him. 4 But Fes­tus an­swered, that Paul should be kept at Cae­sarea, and that he him­self would de­part short­ly thither. 5 Let them there­fore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and ac­cuse this man, if there be any wicked­ness in him. 6 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. 7 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. 8 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. 9 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? 10 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. 11 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. 12 Then Fes­tus, when he had con­ferred with the coun­cil, an­swered, Hast thou ap­pealed unto Cae­sar? unto Cae­sar shalt thou go. 13 And af­ter cer­tain days king Agrip­pa and Ber­nice came unto Cae­sarea to salute Fes­tus. 14 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: 15 About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the el­ders of the Jews in­formed me, de­sir­ing ­to have judg­ment against him. 16 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. 17 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. 18 Against whom when the ac­cusers stood up, they brought none ac­cu­sa­tion of such things as I sup­posed: 19 But had cer­tain ques­tions against him of their own su­per­sti­tion, and of one Je­sus, which was dead, whom Paul af­firmed to be alive. 20 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. 21 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. 22 Then Agrip­pa said unto Fes­tus, I would also hear the man my­self. To mor­row, said he, thou shalt hear him. 23 And on the mor­row, when Agrip­pa was come, and Ber­nice, with great pomp, and was en­tered into the place of hear­ing, with the chief cap­tains, and prin­ci­pal men of the city, at Fes­tus' com­mand­ment Paul was brought forth. 24 And Fes­tus said, King Agrip­pa, and all men which are here pre­sent with us, ye see this man, about whom all the mul­ti­tude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, cry­ing that he ought not to live any longer. 25 But when I found that he had com­mit­ted noth­ing wor­thy of death, and that he him­self hath ap­pealed to Au­gus­tus, I have de­ter­mined to send him. 26 Of whom I have no cer­tain thing to write unto my lord. Where­fore I have brought him forth be­fore you, and spe­cial­ly be­fore thee, O king Agrip­pa, that, af­ter ex­am­i­na­tion had, I might have some­what to write. 27 For it seemeth to me un­rea­son­able to send a pris­on­er, and not with­al to sig­ni­fy the crimes laid against him.