Deeds (Act) of Apostles 26:23-32

²³if Christ is to suffer, if he is the first of the again-rising of dead men, that shall show light to the people and to heathen men.

²⁴When he spake these things, and yielded reason, Festus said with great voice, Paul, thou maddest or thou waxest mad; many letters turn thee to madness.

²⁵And Paul said, I mad not, thou best Festus, but I speak out the words of truth and of soberness.

²⁶For also the king, to whom I speak steadfastly, knoweth of these things; for I deem, that nothing of these is hid from him; for neither in a corner was aught of these things done.

²⁷Believest thou, king Agrippa, to prophets? I know that thou believest.

²⁸And Agrippa said to Paul, In little thing thou counselest me for to be made a christian man.

²⁹And Paul said, I desire with God, both in little and in great, not only thee, but all these that hear today, to be made such as I am, except these bonds.

³⁰And the king rose up, and the president, and Bernice, and they that sat nigh to them.

³¹And when they went away, they spake together, and said, That this man hath not done anything worthy death, neither or bonds.

³²And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might be delivered or dismissed, if he had not appealed to the emperor or to Caesar.