12 Then Festus, after conferring with his advisers, answered, “You have appealed to the Emperor, so to the Emperor you will go.”
13 Some time later King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay a visit of welcome to Festus.
14 After they had been there several days, Festus explained Paul's situation to the king: “There is a man here who was left a prisoner by Felix;
15 and when I went to Jerusalem, the Jewish chief priests and elders brought charges against him and asked me to condemn him.
16 But I told them that we Romans are not in the habit of handing over anyone accused of a crime before he has met his accusers face to face and has had the chance of defending himself against the accusation.
17 When they came here, then, I lost no time, but on the very next day I sat in the court and ordered the man to be brought in.
18 His opponents stood up, but they did not accuse him of any of the evil crimes that I thought they would.