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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.
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Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. Tomorrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
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And the next day when Agrippa was come and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the tribunals and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment, Paul was brought forth.
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Then Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem and
also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.
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But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death and that he himself has appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.
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Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Therefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O King Agrippa, that, after examination, I might have something to write.
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For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not to signify the crimes
laid against him.