s.
(21)But Paul appealing that he should be reserved for the cognizance of
Augustus, I ordered him to be kept in custody until I should send him
to Caesar.

(22)Then Agrippa said to Festus, I wish also myself to hear the man. He
said, To-morrow thou shalt hear him.

(23)On the morrow therefore, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with a
very splendid retinue, and were entered into the place of audience,
with the military tribunes, and the men of superior eminence in the
city, then at the order of Festus Paul was produced.

(24)And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all you, sirs, who are present
with us, behold the man, concerning whom the whole multitude of the
Jews have set upon me, both at Jerusalem and in this place, clamouring
that he ought not to live a moment longer. (25)But finding on inquiry
that he had done nothing worthy of death, and he himself indeed having
appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him. (26)Respecting
whom I have nothing determinate to write to my sovereign. Wherefore I
have brought him forth before you, and especially before thee, king
Agrippa, that on a fresh examination taken, I might have something to
write. (27)For it appears to me highly unreasonable to send a prisoner,
and not also signify the charges against him.

CHAP. XXVI.

THEN Agrippa said unto Paul, Thou art permitted to speak for thyself.
Then Paul stretching out his hand, began his defence: (2)I count myself
happy, king Agrippa, that I am about to address my defence to thee this
day concerning all the things of which I am accused by the Jews:
(3)especially as thou art skilled both in all the customs, and
questions which respect the Jews: wherefore I beg the favour of thee to
hear me patiently.

(4)The manner of my life even from my youth, which from its beginning
was spent amidst my own nation at Jerusalem, know indeed all the Jews;
(5)who previously knew me a long while ago, (if they chose to bear
testimony,) that according to the most precise sect of our religion I
lived a Pharisee. (6)And this moment for the hope of the promise made
of God to our fathers am I standing here to be judged: (7)which promise
our twelve tribes, with fervour night and day worshipping God, hope to
attain. For which hope, king Agrippa, I am criminated by the Jews.

(8)What! is it judged a thing incredible by you, that God should raise
the dead?

(9)I indeed then thought in myself, that I ought to do many things in
opposition to the na