Acts 25:22-26:11 Then Agrippa said to Festus, I would also hear the man myself. And he said, To-morrow thou shalt hear him.

Wesley⁽ⁱ⁾ ²² Then Agrippa said to Festus, I would also hear the man myself. And he said, To-morrow thou shalt hear him. ²³ And on the morrow, when Agrippa was come and Bernice with great pomp, and were entered into the place of audience, with the tribunes and principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought forth. ²⁴ And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all ye who are present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have pleaded with me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying out, that he ought not to live any longer. ²⁵ But when I found, that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and he had himself appealed to the Emperor, I determined to send him: ²⁶ Of whom I have nothing certain to send to my lord: wherefore I have brought him before you, and especially before thee, O king Agrippa, that after examination taken, I may have somewhat to write. ²⁷ For it seemeth to me unreasonable, to send a prisoner, and not to signify also the crimes alledged against him. ²⁶ ¹ Then Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. ² And Paul, stretching forth his hand, made his defence. I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am this day to make my defence before thee, concerning all those things whereof I am accused by the Jews, ³ Who art accurately acquainted with all the customs and questions which are among the Jews, wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently. ⁴ The manner of my life from my youth which was from the beginning among my own nation at Jerusalem, ⁵ all the Jews know, Who knew me from the first, (if they would testify) that I lived a Pharisee, after the strictest sect of our religion. ⁶ And now I stand in judgment, for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers: ⁷ To which our twelve tribes, worshiping continually night and day, hope to attain: concerning which hope, King Agrippa, I am accused by the Jews. ⁸ What? Is it judged by you an incredible thing, that God should raise the dead? ⁹ I indeed thought myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth: ¹⁰ Which also I did in Jerusalem: and having received authority from the chief priests, I shut up many of the saints in prisons, and when they were killed, I gave my vote against them. ¹¹ And frequently punishing them in all the synagogues, I compelled them to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.