\subsection{Acts 25}
\VS{1} Phestus therefore having set foot in the province, after three days he went 
up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. 
\VS{2} And the chief-priests and the foremost 
[men] of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they were calling upon him, 
\VS{3} asking\fnAiteo{} [a] grace from him, that he summon him to Jerusalem, 
making [a] plot to be doing away with him on the way. 
\VS{4} On the one hand therefore 
Phestus answered [that] Paul [is] being kept in Caesarea, on the other hand he himself 
[is] [about] to be swiftly\footnote{or ``shortly''} going out. 
\VS{5} Those therefore 
among you, he said, able having gone down [with] me, if there is something 
improper in this man, let\fnImperative{} them accuse him. 
\VS{6} So having stayed among them not many eight or ten days, 
having gone down to Caesarea, on the next day having sat upon the judgment seat, 
he ordered Paul be brought. 
\VS{7} So when he arrived, the Jews come down from Jerusalem 
stood around [him], bringing many and weighty accusations [against him], which they were not able to prove, 
\VS{8} while Paul was making defense that neither in the law 
of the Jews nor in the temple nor in Caesar was he sinning anything. 
\VS{9} Now Phestus wanting to grant the Jews [a] grace, answered Paul saying: Do you 
wish having gone up to Jerusalem to be judged there by me concerning these 
[things]? 
\VS{10} So Paul said: I am standing on the judgment seat of Caesar, you 
must not judge me. I have done [the] Jews no injustice, as you also well know. 
\VS{11} If on the one hand therefore I have done injustice and have 
practiced anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if on the 
other hand what these accuse of me is nothing, no one is able to 
grant\footnote{from GRACE} me to them --- I call upon Caesar. 
\VS{12} Then Phestus, having spoken with the council, answered: 
Upon Caesar have you called, to Caesar will you go.

\VS{13} Now certain days having elapsed, Agrippa the king and Bernice 
arrived in Caesarea greeting Phestus. 
\VS{14} Now as they were remaining 
there more days, Phestus communicated the [accusations] against Paul saying: 
\VS{15} There is a certain man left prisoner by Felix, concerning whom, when I came 
to be in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews were informing 
[me], requesting\fnAiteo{} condemnation against him, 
\VS{16} to whom I answered that: It 
is not [a] custom for Romans to be granting any man, until the [one] being accused 
might have his accusers before his face, and might receive place of defense 
concerning the charges. 
\VS{17} So when they came here, I having made no 
delay, on the next [day] having sat on the judgment seat I ordered the man to be 
brought, 
\VS{18} concerning whom the accusers having stood brought no charge 
which I thought wicked\fnPoneros{}, 
\VS{19} but [that] they had certain questions concerning 
their own religion against him and concerning a certain Jesus having died, 
whom Paul asserts zoe-lives\fnZoe{}. 
\VS{20} So being uncertain of the investigation 
concerning this, I was saying if he might wish to be going to Jerusalem and 
there be being judged concerning these [things]. 
\VS{21} But when Paul called for 
him to be kept to the decision of Sebastus, I ordered him to be kept until I 
send him to Caesar. 
\VS{22} So Agrippa [said] to Phestus: I myself also intend to 
hear him. Tomorrow, he said, he would hear him. 
\VS{23} On the morrow 
therefore Agrippa and Bernice having come with much pageantry and having 
gone in to the audience room with the commanders and most prominent men of 
the city, and Phestus having ordered, Paul was brought. 
\VS{24} And Phestus 
said: King Agrippa and all those men present with you, you behold this [man] 
concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews appealed to me both in 
Jerusalem and here, shouting he must zoe-live\fnZoe{} \negd{no longer}. 
\VS{25} So I found him to have practiced nothing worthy of death. 
So when this [one] himself called upon Sebastus I decided to be sending [him], concerning whom I have nothing certain to write to [my] Lord. Therefore I brought him before you [all]\fnYouPlural{} and 
especially you, King Agrippa, that [an] investigation having come to pass, I may 
have something I may write. 
\VS{27} For it seems unreasonable to me, having 
sent him prisoner, to not also report the accusations against him.
