1 Festus het dan in die provinsie gekom en n drie dae van Cesar,a opgegaan na Jerusalem.
2 En die hoëpriester en die vernaamstes van die Jode het Paulus by hom aangeklaag
3 en by hom aangedring en gevra, as 'n guns teen Paulus, dat hy hom na Jerusalem moes laat haal; terwyl hulle intussen 'n hinderlaag voorberei het om hom op die weg om te bring.
4 Maar Festus het geantwoord dat Paulus in Cesar,a bewaak word en dat hy self spoedig daarheen sou reis.
5 Laat dan die onder julle, sê hy, wat bevoeg is, saamgaan, en as daar iets verkeerds in hierdie man is, hom beskuldig.
6 En nadat hy nie meer as tien dae onder hulle deurgebring het nie, het hy na Cesar,a afgegaan en die volgende dag op die regterstoel gaan sit en bevel gegee dat Paulus voorgebring moes word.
7 En toe hy verskyn, het die Jode wat van Jerusalem afgekom het, rondom hom gestaan en baie en swaar beskuldiginge teen Paulus ingebring wat hulle nie kon bewys nie,
8 terwyl hy tot sy verdediging gesê het: Ek het niks teen die wet van die Jode of teen die tempel of teen die keiser gesondig nie.
9 Maar omdat Festus aan die Jode 'n guns wou bewys, het hy geantwoord en vir Paulus gesê: Wil jy na Jerusalem opgaan en daar voor my oor hierdie dinge teregstaan?
10 Toe sê Paulus: Ek staan voor die regterstoel van die keiser waar ek geoordeel moet word. Aan die Jode het ek geen onreg gedoen nie, soos u ook baie goed weet.
11 Want as ek oortree het of iets gedoen het wat die dood verdien, weier ek nie om te sterwe nie. Maar as daar niks is in die dinge waarvan hulle my beskuldig nie, dan kan niemand my aan hulle by wyse van guns oorlewer nie. Ek beroep my op die keiser!
12 Toe antwoord Festus, nadat hy met die Raad gespreek het: Op die keiser het jy jou beroep -- na die keiser sal jy gaan!
13 En n verloop van enkele dae het koning Agr¡ppa en Bern¡ce in Cesar,a aangekom om Festus te begroet.
14 En toe hulle daar verskeie dae deurgebring het, het Festus die saak van Paulus aan die koning voorgelê en gesê: Hier is 'n man deur Felix as gevangene agtergelaat,
15 teen wie die owerpriesters en die ouderlinge van die Jode, toe ek in Jerusalem was, 'n klag ingedien en vonnis teen hom gevra het.
16 En ek het hulle geantwoord dat dit nie by die Romeine gewoonte is om enige mens by wyse van guns aan die dood prys te gee voordat die beskuldigde die beskuldigers voor hom gehad het en geleentheid tot verdediging in verband met die beskuldiging gekry het nie.
17 Toe hulle dan hier vergader het, het ek sonder enige uitstel die volgende dag op die regterstoel gaan sit en bevel gegee om die man voor te bring.
18 Die beskuldigers het teen hom opgetree en geen beskuldiging ingebring van dinge soos ek verwag het nie,
19 maar hulle het met hom sekere twisvrae oor hulle eie godsdiens gehad en oor 'n sekere Jesus wat dood is, van wie Paulus verklaar het dat Hy lewe.
20 En omdat ek met die ondersoek hiervan verleë was, het ek gevra of hy na Jerusalem wou gaan en daar oor hierdie dinge teregstaan;
21 maar toe Paulus in beroep gegaan het om in bewaring te bly vir die beslissing van die keiser, het ek bevel gegee dat hy in bewaring moes bly totdat ek hom na die keiser kon stuur.
22 En Agr¡ppa sê vir Festus: Ek sou self ook graag die man wil hoor. Toe antwoord hy: M"re sal u hom hoor.
23 Op die volgende dag het Agr¡ppa en Bern¡ce toe met prag en praal gekom en die gehoorsaal binnegetree saam met die owerstes oor duisend en die aansienlikste manne van die stad; en op bevel van Festus is Paulus voorgebring.
24 Toe sê Festus: Koning Agr¡ppa en manne wat almal hier saam met ons is, u sien hierdie man oor wie die hele menigte van die Jode my aangespreek het in Jerusalem en ook hier, en uitgeroep het dat hy nie langer behoort te lewe nie.
25 Maar omdat ek gevind het dat hy niks gedoen het wat die dood verdien nie, en hy self ook hom op die keiser beroep het, het ek besluit om hom te stuur.
26 Maar ek kan niks sekers oor hom aan my heer skrywe nie; daarom het ek hom voor u gebring en veral voor u, koning Agr¡ppa, sodat ek n die ondersoek iets kan skrywe.
27 Want dit lyk vir my onredelik om 'n gevangene te stuur en nie die beskuldiginge teen hom aan te dui nie.
1 So Festus, having come into that part of the country which was under his rule, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
2 And the chief priests and the chief men of the Jews made statements against Paul,
3 Requesting Festus to give effect to their design against him, and send him to Jerusalem, when they would be waiting to put him to death on the way.
4 But Festus, in answer, said that Paul was being kept in prison at Caesarea, and that in a short time he himself was going there.
5 So, he said, let those who have authority among you go with me, and if there is any wrong in the man, let them make a statement against him.
6 And when he had been with them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the day after, he took his place on the judge's seat, and sent for Paul.
7 And when he came, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem came round him, and made all sorts of serious statements against him, which were not supported by the facts.
8 Then Paul, in his answer to them, said, I have done no wrong against the law of the Jews, or against the Temple, or against Caesar.
9 But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?
10 And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.
11 If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.
12 Then Festus, having had a discussion with the Jews, made answer, You have said, Let my cause come before Caesar; to Caesar you will go.
13 Now when some days had gone by, King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea and went to see Festus.
14 And as they were there for some days, Festus gave them Paul's story, saying, There is a certain man here who was put in prison by Felix:
15 Against whom the chief priests and the rulers of the Jews made a statement when I was at Jerusalem, requesting me to give a decision against him.
16 To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.
17 So, when they had come together here, straight away, on the day after, I took my place on the judge's seat and sent for the man.
18 But when they got up they said nothing about such crimes as I had in mind:
19 But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living.
20 And as I had not enough knowledge for the discussion of these things, I made the suggestion to him to go to Jerusalem and be judged there.
21 But when Paul made a request that he might be judged by Caesar, I gave orders for him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
22 And Agrippa said to Festus, I have a desire to give the man a hearing myself. Tomorrow, he said, you may give him a hearing.
23 So on the day after, when Agrippa and Bernice in great glory had come into the public place of hearing, with the chief of the army and the chief men of the town, at the order of Festus, Paul was sent for.
24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all those who are present here with us, you see this man, about whom all the Jews have made protests to me, at Jerusalem and in this place, saying that it is not right for him to be living any longer.
25 But, in my opinion, there is no cause of death in him, and as he himself has made a request to be judged by Caesar, I have said that I would send him.
26 But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing.
27 For it seems to me against reason to send a prisoner without making clear what there is against him.