12. Then, after conferring with his council, Festus replied, “You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go!”
13. After several days had passed, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
14. While they were staying there many days, Festus explained Paul’s case to the king to get his opinion, saying, “There is a man left here as a prisoner by Felix.
15. When I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, asking for a sentence of condemnation against him.
16. I answered them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over anyone before the accused had met his accusers face to face and had been given an opportunity to make a defense against the accusation.
17. So after they came back here with me, I did not postpone the case, but the next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought.
18. When his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected.