But when Paul appealed to be held over for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered that he be held until I could send him to Caesar.”
At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”
Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that a census should be taken of the whole empire.
Paul replied, “I am standing before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to