Thematic Bible: Permitted to make defense
Thematic Bible
Prisoners » Permitted to make defense
And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul, having stretched forth his hand, made a defense.
At my first defense no man came with me, but all forsook me. May it not be reckoned to them.
To whom I answered, that it is not a custom by Romans to give any man freely for destruction, before the man being accused has the accusers in person, and receives an occasion of defense about the accusation.
And when the governor gestured to him to speak, Paul answered, Knowing for many years thou being a judge to this nation, I gladly make a defense of these things about myself,
while he was defending, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I transgressed anything.