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Appeal » Paul makes, to caesar
But Paul said, I stand at the judgmentseat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. To the Jews I have done no wrong, as thou also very well knowest. If indeed I am an offender, and have done anything deserving death, I refuse not to die; but if there be nothing in the charges which they bring against me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.
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. Then Agrippa said to Festus, I should like to hear the man myself. Tomorrow, said he, thou shalt hear him. 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. read more.
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. But having found that he had done nothing deserving death, and he himself having appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him; 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. For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not signify the charges against him;
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. But having found that he had done nothing deserving death, and he himself having appealed to Augustus, I determined to send him; 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. For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not signify the charges against him;
And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.
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But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar; not that I had any charge to bring against my nation.
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Courts of justice » Of the romans in judea » Appeals from, made to the emperor
And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.
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But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar; not that I had any charge to bring against my nation.
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If indeed I am an offender, and have done anything deserving death, I refuse not to die; but if there be nothing in the charges which they bring against me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.
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The Roman empire » Allusions to judicial affairs of » Those who appealed to cæsar, to be brought before him
And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Caesar.
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