17. So when they assembled here, without delay I sat on the judgment seat the next day and ordered that the man be brought in.
18. When the accusers stood up, they brought no accusation against him of such crimes as I had supposed.
19. But they had disagreements with him about their own religion and about a Man named Jesus, who had died, but whom Paul asserted was alive.
20. Being perplexed about such questions, I asked if he would be willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there concerning these charges.
21. But when Paul had appealed to be under guard for the decision of Caesar, I ordered that he be secured until I could send him to Caesar.”
22. Then Agrippa said to Festus, “I would like to hear the man myself.”He said, “Tomorrow you shall hear him.”
23. The next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and they entered the hall with the commanders and the leading men of the city. When Festus gave the order, Paul was brought in.
24. Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all the men who are present with us, you see this man, concerning whom the whole assembly of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer.
25. I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death. But when he himself appealed to Caesar, I decided to send him.
26. But I have nothing to write to His Majesty concerning him. Therefore I have brought him before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that upon examination, I might have something to write.