To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before the one who is accused is face to face with his accusers and is given license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

For him that answers a word before he hears, it is folly and reproach unto him.

Does our law judge any man before it hears him and knows what he does?

Stretched

Because I have called and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one responded;

Behold, therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thy liberty and delivered thee unto the will of those that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, who are ashamed of thy lewd way.

And against Israel he says, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.

Answered

I esteem myself blessed, King Agrippa, because I shall answer for myself this day before thee concerning all the things of which I am accused of the Jews,

Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defense which I make now unto you.