Acts 25:21

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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.

But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.

And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

At my first defense no one supported me, but all deserted me; may it not be counted against them.

When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan

cohort named Julius.

Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth.

Then when Festus had conferred with his council, he answered, “You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go.”