Some time after, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea on a state visit to Festus,

"I should like to hear the man myself," Agrippa said to Festus. "You shall hear him tomorrow," Festus answered.

So the next day, Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and went into the audience-room attended by officers and the leading citizens of the town, and at the command of Festus Paul was brought in.

Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all who are present, you see here the man about whom the whole Jewish people have applied to me both at Jerusalem and here, clamoring that he ought not to live any longer.

Yet I have nothing definite to write to our sovereign about him. So I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, in order to get from your examination of him something to put in writing.

Then Agrippa said to Paul, "You are at liberty to speak in your own defense." So Paul stretched out his hand and began his defense.

"I think myself fortunate, King Agrippa," said he, "that it is before you that I am to defend myself today against all the things the Jews charge me with,

Therefore, King Agrippa, I did not disobey that heavenly vision,

King Agrippa, do you believe the prophets? I know that you do!"

"You are in a hurry to persuade me and make a Christian of me!" Agrippa said to Paul.

"He might have been set at liberty," said Agrippa to Festus, "if he had not appealed to the emperor."