Acts 25:13-27 - Festus Asks King Agrippa For Advice
13 And after some days Agrippa the king and Bernice came to Caesarea to greet Festus. 14 And while they were making a stay of some days there, Festus laid the case of Paul before the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix, 15 against whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought a complaint, asking for judgment against him. 16 To whom I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man on a charge, before the accused hath the accusers face to face, and hath opportunity to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him. 17 When therefore they had come together here, without any delay I sat on the judgmentseat on the day after, and ordered the man to be brought forward. 18 And his accusers standing around him brought no accusation of such things as I had conjectured, 19 but had against him certain questions of their own religion, and of one Jesus that was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. 20 And I being at a loss about such questions, asked him if he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be put on trial for these matters. 21 But Paul having appealed to be kept in custody for the judgment of Augustus, I ordered him to be kept till I should send him up to Caesar.
22 Then Agrippa said to Festus, I should like to hear the man myself. Tomorrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
23 Accordingly on the morrow Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains and principal men of the city, and at the order of Festus Paul was brought forward. 24 And Festus said: King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us! Ye see this man about whom the whole multitude of the Jews applied to me both at Jerusalem and here, crying out that he ought no longer to live. 25 But having found that he had done nothing deserving death, and he himself having appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him; 26 and as I have nothing certain to write about him to the emperor, I have brought him forward before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that when the examination hath been made, I may have something to write. 27 For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not signify the charges against him;