Paul goes before Agrippa

25:22Agrippa said to Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”

25:23So on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had come with great pomp, and they had entered into the place of hearing with the commanding officers and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.

25:24Festus said, “King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

25:25But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor, I determined to send him,

25:26of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, after examination I may have something to write.

25:27For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to also specify the charges against him.”

26:1Agrippa said to Paul, “You may speak for yourself.” Then Paul stretched out his hand, and made his defense.

26:2“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you today concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

26:3especially because you are expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews. Therefore I beg you to hear me patiently.

26:4“Indeed, all the Jews know my way of life from my youth up, which was from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem;

26:5having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

26:6Now I stand here to be judged for the hope of the promise made by God to our fathers,