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| 1Three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem. | 1Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem. |
| 2The high priests and Jewish leaders informed him of their charges against Paul, urging | 2Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him, |
| 3and asking Festus to have Paul brought to Jerusalem as a favor. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the road. | 3And desired favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill him. |
| 4Festus replied that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself would be going there soon. | 4But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither. |
| 5"Therefore," he said, "have your authorities come down with me and present their charges against him there, if there is anything wrong with the man." | 5Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him. |
| 6Festus stayed with them no more than eight or ten days and then went down to Caesarea. The next day, he sat on the judge's seat and ordered Paul brought in. | 6And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought. |
| 7When Paul arrived, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and began bringing a number of serious charges against him that they couldn't prove. | 7And when he was come, the Jews which came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many and grievous complaints against Paul, which they could not prove. |
| 8Paul said in his defense, "I have done nothing wrong against the Law of the Jews, or of the Temple, or of the emperor." | 8While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended any thing at all. |
| 9Then Festus, wanting to do the Jewish leaders a favor, asked Paul, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried there before me on these charges?" | 9But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me? |
| 10But Paul said, "I am standing before the emperor's judgment seat where I ought to be tried. I haven't done anything wrong to the Jewish leaders, as you know very well. | 10Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as thou very well knowest. |
| 11If I'm guilty and have done something that deserves death, I'm willing to die. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can hand me over to them as a favor. I appeal to the emperor!" | 11For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar. |
| 12Festus talked it over with the council and then answered, "To the emperor you have appealed; to the emperor you will go!" | 12Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go. |
| 13After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to welcome Festus. | 13And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus. |
| 14Since they were staying there for several days, Festus laid Paul's case before the king. He said, "There is a man here who was left in prison by Felix. | 14And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix: |
| 15When I went to Jerusalem, the high priests and the Jewish elders informed me about him and asked me to condemn him. | 15About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him. |
| 16I answered them that it was not the Roman custom to sentence a man to be punished until the accused met his accusers face to face and had an opportunity to defend himself against the charge. | 16To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him. |
| 17So they came here with me, and the next day without any delay I sat down in the judge's seat and ordered the man to be brought in. | 17Therefore, when they were come hither, without any delay on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought forth. |
| 18When his accusers stood up, they didn't accuse him of any of the crimes I was expecting. | 18Against whom when the accusers stood up, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed: |
| 19Instead, they had several arguments with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus who had died—but Paul kept asserting he was alive. | 19But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive. |
| 20I was puzzled how I should investigate such matters, so I asked if he would like to go to Jerusalem and be tried there for these things. | 20And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters. |
| 21But Paul appealed his case and asked to be held in prison until the decision of his Majesty. So I ordered him to be held in custody until I could send him to the emperor." | 21But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar. |
| 22Agrippa told Festus, "I would like to hear the man." "Tomorrow," he said, "you will hear him." | 22Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him. |
| 23The next day, Agrippa and Bernice arrived with much fanfare and went into the auditorium along with the tribunes and the leading men of the city. At the command of Festus, Paul was brought in. | 23And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus' commandment Paul was brought forth. |
| 24Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all you men who are present with us! You see this man about whom the whole Jewish nation petitioned me, both in Jerusalem and here, shouting that he ought not to live any longer. | 24And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which 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. |
| 25I find that he has not done anything deserving of death. But since he has appealed to his Majesty, I have decided to send him. | 25But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him. |
| 26I have nothing reliable to write our Sovereign about him, so I have brought him to all of you, and especially to you, King Agrippa, so that I will have something to write after he is cross-examined. | 26Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, O king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I might have somewhat to write. |
| 27For it seems to me absurd to send a prisoner without specifying the charges against him." | 27For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him. |
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