Acts 25:13-21

¹³And after some days King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and greeted Festus.

¹⁴And 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,

¹⁵about whom the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, when I was in Jerusalem, asking for punishment against him.

¹⁶To 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.’

¹⁷Therefore 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;

¹⁸concerning whom, when the accusers stood, they brought no accusation of the things which I was supposing,

¹⁹but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul professed to be alive.

²⁰And 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.

²¹But 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.”