- When Paul made his appeal to be held over for the Emperor's decision, I ordered him held until I could send him to Caesar."
- Then Agrippa said to Festus, "I would like to hear this man myself." He replied, "Tomorrow you will hear him."
- The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience room with the high ranking officers and the leading men of the city. At the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
- Festus said: "King Agrippa, and all who are present with us, you see this man! The whole Jewish community has petitioned me about him in Jerusalem and here in Caesarea, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.
- I found he had done nothing deserving of death, but because he made his appeal to the Emperor I decided to send him to Rome.
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- But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
- Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
- And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth.
- And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
- But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
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