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1 Therefore Festus, having come (to) the province, after three days he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
2 And the high priests and the leaders of the Jews informed him against [the] Paul. And they were begging him,
3 requesting a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to kill him by(=along) the way.
4 Therefore, [the] Festus answered [the] Paul to be held(=Paul was being kept) in(=at) Caesarea, and himself to be about to leave(=he should leave) soon.
5 He says, “Therefore, Let the (men) with authority among you, having gone down with (me), accuse him if there is anything wrong in the man.”
6 And having stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the next day having sat on the tribunal, he ordered Paul to be brought.
7 And his having come(=when he arrived)1, the Jews having come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges against him, which they were not able to prove.
8 [The] Paul’s defending(=Paul defended himself)2, “[that] I did not sin anything against the law of the Jews nor(=or) against the temple nor(=or) against Caesar.”
9 And Festus, desiring to lay down(=show) a favor (to) the Jews, having answered, said to [the] Paul, “Do you want, having gone up to Jerusalem, to be judged there about these things before me?”
10 And [the] Paul said, “I am standing(#periphrastic present) before the tribunal of Caesar, where it should be for me to be judged. To the Jews I did not any wrong, as you also know very well.”
11 “If, therefore, I do wrong(=have done wrong)3, and have done anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which these (people) accuse me, no one is able to hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
12 Then [the] Festus, having conferred with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar. You shall go to Caesar.”
13 And a few days’ having passed(=when a few days passed)4, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived unto(=at) Caesrea, having greeted(#subsequent action) [the] Festus.
14 And as they were spending many days there, [the] Festus, having set forth the things regarding [the] Paul (before) the king, saying(=said), “There is a certain man, prisoner, having been left by Felix,”
15 “about(=Against) whom, my having been(=when I was)5 in Jerusalem, the high priests and the elders of the Jews informed, asking for sentence against him,”
16 “to whom I answered, ‘[that] It is not (the) custom of Romans to deliver any man before the one being accused has(=meets) the accusers face to face, and gets(# aorist optative) the place(=opportunity) of defence about the charge.’”
17 “Therefore, their having come together(=when they came together)6 here, having made no delay, the next (day) having sat on the tribunal, I ordered the man to be brought,”
18 “about whom the accusers, having stood up, brought no charge of such evil things as I was expecting.”
19 “But they were having certain questions against him about the(=their) own religion and about a certain Jesus having died, whom [the] Paul claimed to be alive.”
20 “And being in doubt over the question about these things, I was saying if he want(# optative) to go to Jerusalem and to be judged there about these things.”
21 “But [the] Paul’s having appealed(=when Paul appealed)7 [him] to be kept to(=until)8 the decision of the Majesty(=Emperor), I ordered him to be kept until I may send him up to Caesar.”
22 And Agrippa (said) to [the] Festus, “I also would like to hear the man myself.” “Tomorrow,” he says, “you will hear him.”
23 The next day, therefore, [the] Agrippa and [the] Bernice’s having come(=when Agrippa and Bernice came)9 with great pomp and having entered(=entered)10 into the audience hall with (the) commanders and the prominent men of the city, and [the] Festus’s having ordered(=when Festus commanded)11, [the] Paul was brought in.
24 And [the] Festus says, “King Agrippa and all men being present together with us, you see this (man) about whom all the community of the Jews petitioned me both at Jerusalem and here, shouting not to have to for him to live(=that he ought not to live) no longer(=any longer).”
25 “But I have found (for) him to have done(=that he had committed) nothing worthy of death, but this (man) himself’s having appealed(=as he himself appealed)12 to the Majesty(=Emperor), I decided to send.”
26 “About whom I don’t have any ceratin thing to write to the lord. Therefore I brought him out before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, that, the investigation’s having been(=when the examination have been done)13, I might have what I might write(=something to write).”
27 “For it seem unreasonable to me sending(=to send) a prisoner [and] not to indicate(=without indicating) (the) charges against him.”