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Acts 25:18-25 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

18. Against whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation of things which I thought ill of:

19. But had certain questions of their own superstition against him, and of one Jesus deceased, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

20. 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.

21. But Paul appealing to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept, till I might send him to Caesar.

22. And Agrippa said to Festus: I would also hear the man, myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.

23. And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice were come with great pomp, and had entered into the hall of audience, with the tribunes, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment, Paul was brought forth.

24. And Festus saith: King Agrippa, and all ye men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews dealt with me at Jerusalem, requesting and crying out that he ought not to live any longer.

25. Yet have I found nothing that he hath committed worthy of death. But forasmuch as he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.

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