Acts 25

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1 So Phestos having stepped into the government, after three days he went up into Jerusalem from Caesareia,
2 and the high priest and the leaders of the Judaeans appeared to him against Paul and exhorted him,
3 requesting a favor by him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to kill him on the road.
4 So then Phestos replied to keep Paul in Caesareia, and himself to be about to go out shortly,
5 "Therefore those among you," he said, "who are able to come down together, if there is anything out of place with the man must bring an accusation against him."
6 And spending among them not more than eight or ten days, going down into Caesareia, the next day sitting upon the judgment seat he ordered Paul to be brought.
7 And upon his arriving there stood about him the Judaeans who came down from Jerusalem, bringing down many and severe charges which they were not able to prove,
8 upon Paul's answering in defense that "Neither against the law of the Judaeans nor against the temple nor against Caesar have I done anything wrong."
9 But Phestos wishing to bestow a favor upon the Judaeans, replying to Paul said "Do you wish, going up to Jerusalem, to be judged there by me concerning these things?"
10 And Paul said "By the judgment seat of Caesar I am standing, where it is proper for me to be judged. I have done nothing wrong to the Judaeans, as even you well recognize.
11 So then if I am a wrongdoer and have done anything worthy of death, I do not ask to be excused from dying. But if there is nothing of these things which they accuse me, no one is able to gratify them. I appeal to Caesar!"
12 Then Phestos conversing with the council answered "You have appealed to Caesar. To Caesar you shall go!"
13 And some days passing, Agrippas the king and Bernika arrived in Caesareia greeting Phestos.
14 And as they spent many days there, Phestos referred to the king the things about Paul saying "There is a certain man left behind by Phelix in bonds,
15 concerning whom upon my coming into Jerusalem the high priests and the elders of the Judaeans appeared requesting a judgment against him.
16 To whom I replied that it is not a custom with the Romans to give any man freely before when he being accused would have the accusers face to face and would receive opportunity for a defense concerning the charges.
17 Therefore upon their coming here, not making any delay the next day sitting upon the judgment seat I ordered the man to be brought,
18 concerning whom the accusers standing brought not any charge of which I suspected evil,
19 but they had certain disputes with him concerning their own religion and concerning a certain Yahshua who is dead whom Paul asserts is living.
20 And I being perplexed concerning the dispute of these things said that if he wished, to go into Jerusalem and there to be judged concerning these things.
21 But upon Paul's appealing for him to be kept for a decision by Sebastos, I ordered him to be kept until when I shall send him up to Caesar."
22 Then Agrippas to Phestos: "I have wished also to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," he said, "you shall hear him."
23 So the next day, Agrippas and Bernika coming with much fanfare and entering into the auditorium with the commanders and eminent men of the city, then upon Phestos' order Paul was brought forth.
24 And Phestos said: "King Agrippas, and all those men who are here with us, see him concerning whom all the multitude of the Judaeans entreated me both in Jerusalem and here, crying out that it is no longer fitting for him to live!
25 But I comprehended him to have done nothing worthy of death, yet he himself having appealed to Sebastos, I have decided to send him.
26 Concerning which I do not have anything certain to write with authority, on which account I have brought him before you, and especially before you, King Agrippas, that upon there being an examination, I would have something that I may write.
27 For it seems to me irrational, sending a prisoner and not indicating the charges against him."