11. “For if indeed I do wrong, or have committed whatever deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is none at all in these matters of which these men accuse me, no one is able to give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
12. Then Festus, having talked with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!”
13. And certain days having passed, Sovereign Agrippa and Bernike came to Caesarea to greet Festus.
14. And when they had spent many days there, Festus laid Sha’ul’s case before the sovereign, saying, “There is a man here whom Felix left as a prisoner,
15. about whom the chief priests and the elders of the Yehuḏim informed me, when I was in Yerushalayim, asking for a judgment against him.
16. “To them I answered, ‘It is not the Roman practice to give up any man to destruction before the accused meets the accusers face to face, and has a chance to answer for himself concerning the charge against him.’
17. “They, therefore, having come together, without any delay, I sat on the judgment seat the next day and commanded the man to be brought in.