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Acts 25 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

Act 25:1Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,
Act 25:2and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews made manifest to him the things against Paul, and were calling on him,
Act 25:3asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.
Act 25:4Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and himself is about speedily to go on thither,
Act 25:5'Therefore those able among you -- saith he -- having come down together, if there be anything in this man -- let them accuse him;'
Act 25:6and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought;
Act 25:7and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem -- many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,
Act 25:8he making defence -- 'Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar -- did I commit any sin.'
Act 25:9And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, 'Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?'
Act 25:10and Paul said, 'At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;
Act 25:11for if indeed I am unrighteous, and anything worthy of death have done, I deprecate not to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favour of me to them; to Caesar I appeal!'
Act 25:12then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, 'To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.'
Act 25:13And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea saluting Festus,
Act 25:14and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, 'There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,
Act 25:15about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,
Act 25:16unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against him.
Act 25:17'They, therefore, having come together -- I, making no delay, on the succeeding day having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,
Act 25:18concerning whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing against him no accusation of the things I was thinking of,
Act 25:19but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;
Act 25:20and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, said, If he would wish to go on to Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things --
Act 25:21but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I did command him to be kept till I might send him unto Caesar.'
Act 25:22And Agrippa said unto Festus, 'I was wishing also myself to hear the man;' and he said, 'To-morrow thou shalt hear him;'

Paul before Agrippa

Act 25:23on the morrow, therefore -- on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered -- Paul was brought forth.
Act 25:24And Festus said, 'King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;
Act 25:25and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,
Act 25:26concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;
Act 25:27for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.'
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