Acts 26:24-32

²⁴As Paul completed his defense, Festus said with a loud voice, “Paul, you are insane; your great learning makes you insane.”

²⁵But Paul said, “I am not insane, most excellent Festus, but what I am declaring is true and rational.

²⁶For the king knows about these things; and so, I speak freely to him, for I am persuaded that none of this is hidden from him; for this has not been done in a corner.

²⁷Do you believe the prophets, King Agrippa? I know that you believe.”

²⁸Agrippa said to Paul, “In a short time would you persuade me and make me a Christian?”

²⁹Paul said, “I pray to God, that whether in a short or long time, not you only, but also all that hear me today, would be like me, but without these prison chains.”

³⁰Then the king stood up, and the governor, and Bernice also, and those who were sitting with them;

³¹when they left the hall, they talked to one another and said, “This man does nothing worthy of death or of bonds.”

³²Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been freed if he had not appealed to Caesar.”