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For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if there are none of these things of which these accuse me, no one may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
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Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
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And after certain days King Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
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And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix,
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about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the princes of the priests and the elders of the Jews informed
me, desiring
to have vengeance against him.
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To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before the one who is accused is face to face with his accusers and is given license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
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Therefore, when they were come here, without any delay on the next day I sat on the judgment seat and commanded the man to be brought forth.
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Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation of such things as I supposed,
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but had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
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And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked
him whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these matters.
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But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept until I might send him to Caesar.