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\subsection{Acts 25}
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\VS{1} Phestus therefore having set foot in the province, after three days he went
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up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
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\VS{2} And the chief-priests and the foremost
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[men] of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they were calling upon him,
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\VS{3} asking\fnAiteo{} [a] grace from him, that he summon him to Jerusalem,
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making [a] plot to be doing away with him on the way.
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\VS{4} On the one hand therefore
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Phestus answered [that] Paul [is] being kept in Caesarea, on the other hand he himself
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[is] [about] to be swiftly\footnote{or ``shortly''} going out.
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\VS{5} Those therefore
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among you, he said, able having gone down [with] me, if there is something
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improper in this man, let\fnImperative{} them accuse him.
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\VS{6} So having stayed among them not many eight or ten days,
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having gone down to Caesarea, on the next day having sat upon the judgment seat,
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he ordered Paul be brought.
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\VS{7} So when he arrived, the Jews come down from Jerusalem
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stood around [him], bringing many and weighty accusations [against him], which they were not able to prove,
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\VS{8} while Paul was making defense that neither in the law
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of the Jews nor in the temple nor in Caesar was he sinning anything.
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\VS{9} Now Phestus wanting to grant the Jews [a] grace, answered Paul saying: Do you
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wish having gone up to Jerusalem to be judged there by me concerning these
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[things]?
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\VS{10} So Paul said: I am standing on the judgment seat of Caesar, you
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must not judge me. I have done [the] Jews no injustice, as you also well know.
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\VS{11} If on the one hand therefore I have done injustice and have
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practiced anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if on the
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other hand what these accuse of me is nothing, no one is able to
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grant\footnote{from GRACE} me to them --- I call upon Caesar.
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\VS{12} Then Phestus, having spoken with the council, answered:
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Upon Caesar have you called, to Caesar will you go.
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\VS{13} Now certain days having elapsed, Agrippa the king and Bernice
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arrived in Caesarea greeting Phestus.
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\VS{14} Now as they were remaining
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there more days, Phestus communicated the [accusations] against Paul saying:
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\VS{15} There is a certain man left prisoner by Felix, concerning whom, when I came
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to be in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews were informing
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[me], requesting\fnAiteo{} condemnation against him,
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\VS{16} to whom I answered that: It
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is not [a] custom for Romans to be granting any man, until the [one] being accused
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might have his accusers before his face, and might receive place of defense
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concerning the charges.
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\VS{17} So when they came here, I having made no
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delay, on the next [day] having sat on the judgment seat I ordered the man to be
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brought,
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\VS{18} concerning whom the accusers having stood brought no charge
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which I thought wicked\fnPoneros{},
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\VS{19} but [that] they had certain questions concerning
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their own religion against him and concerning a certain Jesus having died,
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whom Paul asserts zoe-lives\fnZoe{}.
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\VS{20} So being uncertain of the investigation
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concerning this, I was saying if he might wish to be going to Jerusalem and
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there be being judged concerning these [things].
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\VS{21} But when Paul called for
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him to be kept to the decision of Sebastus, I ordered him to be kept until I
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send him to Caesar.
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\VS{22} So Agrippa [said] to Phestus: I myself also intend to
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hear him. Tomorrow, he said, he would hear him.
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\VS{23} On the morrow
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therefore Agrippa and Bernice having come with much pageantry and having
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gone in to the audience room with the commanders and most prominent men of
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the city, and Phestus having ordered, Paul was brought.
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\VS{24} And Phestus
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said: King Agrippa and all those men present with you, you behold this [man]
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concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews appealed to me both in
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Jerusalem and here, shouting he must zoe-live\fnZoe{} \negd{no longer}.
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\VS{25} So I found him to have practiced nothing worthy of death.
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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
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especially you, King Agrippa, that [an] investigation having come to pass, I may
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have something I may write.
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\VS{27} For it seems unreasonable to me, having
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sent him prisoner, to not also report the accusations against him.
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