For if I be an offender, or havecommitted any thingworthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of thesethingswhereoftheseaccuse me, no man may deliver me untothem. I appealuntoCaesar.
To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, beforethat he which is accusedhave the accusersface to face, and havelicence to answer for himselfconcerning the crimelaidagainst him.
And on the morrow, whenAgrippa was come, and Bernice, withgreatpomp, and was enteredinto the place of hearing, with the chiefcaptains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’commandmentPaul was broughtforth.
And Festussaid, KingAgrippa, and all men which are herepresentwith us, ye see this man, aboutwhom all the multitude of the Jewshavedealtwith me, both at Jerusalem, and alsohere, cryingthat he ought not to live any longer.
Of whom I have no certainthing to writeunto my lord. Wherefore I havebrought him forthbefore you, and speciallybeforethee, O kingAgrippa, that, afterexamination had, I mighthavesomewhat to write.