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Chapter 25 Now when Festus was come into
the province, after three days he ascended

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from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

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Then the high priest and the chief of the
Jews informed him against Paul and

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besought him, and desired favor against
him, that he would send for him to

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Jerusalem, laying wait in the way to kill
him.

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But Festus answered that Paul should be
kept at Caesarea, and that he himself

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would depart shortly thither.

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Let them therefore, said he, which among
you are able, go down with me and accuse

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this man, if there be any wickedness in
him.

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And when he had tarried among them more
than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea,

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and the next day, sitting on the judgment
seat, commanded Paul to be brought.

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And when he was come, the Jews which came
down from Jerusalem stood round about,

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and laid many and grievous complaints
against Paul, which they could not prove.

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While he answered for himself,
Neither against the law of the Jews,

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neither against the temple, nor yet
against Caesar, have I offended anything

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at all.

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But Festus, willing to do the Jews a
pleasure, answered Paul, and said,

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Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be
judged of these things before me?

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Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's
judgment seat, where I ought to be judged.

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To the Jews have I done no wrong,
as thou very well knowest.

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For if I be an offender, or have committed
anything worthy of death, I refuse not to

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die.

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But if there be none of these things
whereof these accuse me, no man may

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deliver me unto them.

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I appeal unto Caesar.

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Then Festus, when he had conferred with
the council, answered, Hast thou appealed

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unto Caesar?

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Unto Caesar shalt thou go.

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And after certain days, King Agrippa and
Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute

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Festus.

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And when they had been there many days,
Festus declared Paul's cause unto the

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king, saying, There is a certain man left
in bonds by Felix, about whom,

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when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests
and the elders of the Jews informed me,

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desiring to have judgment against him.

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To whom I answered, It is not the manner
of the Romans to deliver any man to die.

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Before that, he which is accused have the
accusers face to face, and have license to

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answer for himself concerning the crime
laid against him.

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Therefore, when they were come hither,
without any delay on the morrow,

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I sat on the judgment seat, and commanded
the man to be brought forth.

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Against whom, when the accusers stood up,
they brought none accusation of such

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things as I supposed, but had certain
questions against him of their own

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superstition and of one Jesus,
which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be

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alive.

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And because I doubted of such manner of
questions, I asked him whether he would go

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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

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him to be kept till I might send him to
Caesar.

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Then Agrippa said unto Festus,
I would also hear the man myself.

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Tomorrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.

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And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come,
and Bernice, with great pomp, and was

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entered into the place of hearing with the
chief captains and principal men of the

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city, at Festus' commandment, Paul was
brought forth.

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And Festus said, King Agrippa,
and all men which are here present with

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us, ye see this man, about whom all the
multitude of the Jews have dealt with me,

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both at Jerusalem, and also here,
crying that he ought not to live any

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longer.

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But when I found that he had committed
nothing worthy of death, and that he

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himself hath 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.

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Wherefore I have brought him forth before
you, and specially before thee,

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O King Agrippa, that, after examination
had, I might have somewhat to write.

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For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send
a prisoner, and not withal to signify the

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crimes laid against him.