And when Herod was about to bring him forward, on that night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and guards kept watch before the door.

Then the chiliarch approaching took him, and commanded him to be bound with two chains, and inquired who he was and what he had done.

If indeed I have done wrong or committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die; but if those things of which they accuse me are nothing, no man may give me up to them; I appeal to Caesar. Then Festus having conferred with the council answered, You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go.

And when the barbarians saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said one to another, This man is undoubtedly a murderer, whom though saved from the sea justice has not permitted to live.