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Acts 25:18-23 Modern English Version (MEV)

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.

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