Acts 25:16
To whom I answered, that it is not a custom by Romans to give any man freely for destruction, before the man being accused has the accusers in person, and receives an occasion of defense about the accusation.
Acts 25:4-5
Indeed therefore Festus answered to keep Paul in Caesarea, and he himself was going to go out quickly.
John 7:51
Does our law judge a man, unless it first may hear from himself and know what he does?
Acts 23:30
And when it was reported to me of a plot going to be against the man by the Jews, I immediately sent him to thee, also having commanded the accusers to speak before thee the things against him. Be strong.
Deuteronomy 17:4
and it be told thee, and thou have heard of it, then shall thou inquire diligently. And, behold, if it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel,
Deuteronomy 19:17-18
then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before LORD, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days,
Proverbs 18:13
He who gives answer before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.
Proverbs 18:17
He who pleads his case first [seems] just, but his neighbor comes and searches him out.
Acts 26:1
And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul, having stretched forth his hand, made a defense.