Thematic Bible: Appeal
Thematic Bible
Appeal » Paul makes, to caesar
Then said Paul, I stand at Cesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as thou very well knowest. For if I am indeed doing them wrong, and have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be nothing in what these men accuse me of, no one can give me up to them.
But when Paul appealed, to be reserved to the hearing of our sovereign, I ordered him to be kept till I could send him to Cesar. Then Agrippa said to Festus, I should be willing to hear the man myself. And he said, thou shalt hear him to-morrow. The next day therefore, Agrippa and Bernice coming with much pomp, and entering into the court, together with the chief officers, and men of greatest eminence in the city, at the command of Festus Paul was brought in. read more.
And Festus said, "King Agrippa and all that are here present with us, ye see this man, concerning whom all the Jews have applied to me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out, that he ought not to live. But when I found that he had done nothing worthy of death, and as he himself has appealed to the emperor, I have determined to send him. Concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to our sovereign: wherefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before thee, O king Agrippa, that after examination is made I may have somewhat to write. For it seems to me absurd, to send a prisoner and not to signify the crimes laid against him."
And Festus said, "King Agrippa and all that are here present with us, ye see this man, concerning whom all the Jews have applied to me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out, that he ought not to live. But when I found that he had done nothing worthy of death, and as he himself has appealed to the emperor, I have determined to send him. Concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to our sovereign: wherefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before thee, O king Agrippa, that after examination is made I may have somewhat to write. For it seems to me absurd, to send a prisoner and not to signify the crimes laid against him."
And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed to Cesar.
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but the Jews opposing it, I was obliged to appeal to Cesar; though not as having any thing to accuse my nation of.
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