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For if I am an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there is none of these things of which these accuse me, no man may deliver me to them. I appeal to Cesar.
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Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed to Cesar? to Cesar thou shalt go.
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And after certain days, king Agrippa and Bernice came to Cesarea, to salute Festus.
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And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause to 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 chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed [me], desiring [to have] judgment 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 he who is accused hath the accusers face to face, and hath license to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.
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Therefore, when they had come hither, without any delay on the morrow 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 concerning these matters.
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But when Paul had appealed to be reserved to the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Cesar.