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1 Festus therefore, being come into the eparchy, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.2 And the chief priests and the chief of the Jews laid informations before him against Paul, and besought him,3 asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.4 Festus therefore answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.5 Let therefore the persons of authority among you, says he, going down too, if there be anything in this man, accuse him.6 And having remained among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the next day, having sat down on the judgment-seat, commanded Paul to be brought.7 And when he was come, the Jews who were come down from Jerusalem stood round, bringing many and grievous charges which they were not able to prove:8 Paul answering for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended {in} anything.9 But Festus, desirous of obliging the Jews, to acquire their favour, answering Paul, said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be judged before me concerning these things?10 But Paul said, I am standing before the judgment-seat of Caesar, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews have I done no wrong, as *thou* also very well knowest.11 If then I have done any wrong and committed anything worthy of death, I do not deprecate dying; but if there is nothing of those things of which they accuse me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.12 Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed to Caesar. To Caesar shalt thou go.13 And when certain days had elapsed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to salute Festus.14 And when they had spent many days there, Festus laid before the king the matters relating to Paul, saying, There is a certain man left prisoner by Felix,15 concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid informations, requiring judgment against him:16 to whom I answered, It is not {the} custom of the Romans to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and he have got opportunity of defence touching the charge.17 When therefore they had come together here, without putting it off, I sat the next day on the judgment-seat and commanded the man to be brought:18 concerning whom the accusers, standing up, brought no such accusation of guilt as *I* supposed;19 but had against him certain questions of their own system of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be living.20 And as I myself was at a loss as to an inquiry into these things, I said, Was he willing to go to Jerusalem and there to be judged concerning these things?21 But Paul having appealed to be kept for the cognisance of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I shall send him to Caesar.22 And Agrippa {said} to Festus, I myself also would desire to hear the man. To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.23 On the morrow therefore, Agrippa being come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and having entered into the hall of audience, with the chiliarchs and the men of distinction of the city, and Festus having given command, Paul was brought.24 And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, ye see this person, concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews applied to me both in Jerusalem and here, crying out against {him} that he ought not to live any longer.25 But I, having found that he had done nothing worthy of death, and this {man} himself having appealed to Augustus, I have decided to send him;26 concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Wherefore I have brought him before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, so that an examination having been gone into I may have something to write:27 for it seems to me senseless, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.

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 aangeklaag3 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.

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