Acts 26:24-32

²⁴While Paul was talking Festus suddenly shouted, “Paul, you are mad. You have been reading too much, and now you are mad.”

²⁵But Paul said, “No, Festus Sir, I’m not mad. I’m talking in a true and sensible way.

²⁶The big boss here knows about these things, so I can talk to him and I know he will understand. You see, people everywhere have heard about Jesus.”

²⁷Then Paul said, “Boss Agrippa, do you believe the message God’s men wrote in his book? Yes, I know you believe it.”

²⁸Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You have just been talking to me for a little while. Don’t think you can get me to become a Christian so quick.”

²⁹Paul said, “It doesn’t matter if it is quick, or if it takes a long time. I’m asking God that you and everyone that is listening to me will believe in Jesus, like I do. I want you to be just like I am now. But I don’t want you to be a prisoner like I am now.”

³⁰Then those 2 big bosses stood up, and Bernice, and all the others there, they all got up,

³¹and they all went out of that room. While they were going out they said to each other, “This man didn’t do anything bad. We don’t have to kill him, or even keep him in jail.”

³²Then Agrippa said to Festus, “Maybe you could let this man go free, but there is a problem. He asked us to send him to Rome for the biggest boss, called Caesar, to judge him. So you can’t let him go free. You have to send him to Caesar, the biggest boss in Rome.”