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For if I have injured them or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die. But if there be none of these things whereof they accuse me, no man may deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.
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Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered: Hast thou appealed to Caesar? To Caesar shalt thou go.
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And after some days, king Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea, to salute Festus.
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And as they tarried there many days, Festus told the king of Paul, saying: A certain man was left prisoner by Felix.
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About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the ancients of the Jews came unto me, desiring condemnation against him.
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To whom I answered: it is not the custom of the Romans to condemn any man, before that he who is accused have his accusers present and have liberty to make his answer, to clear himself of the things laid to his charge.
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When therefore they were come hither, without any delay, on the day following, sitting in the judgment seat, I commanded the man to be brought.
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Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation of this which I thought ill of:
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But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, and of one Jesus deceased, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
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I therefore being in a doubt of this manner of question, asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these things.
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But Paul, appealing to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept, till I might send him to Caesar.