24 And Festus said, “Sovereign Agrippa and all the men present here with us, you see this one about whom all the community of the Yehuḏim pleaded with me, both at Yerushalayim and here, shouting that he ought not to be living any longer.
25 “But I, having found that he had committed none at all deserving death, and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him.
26 “I have no definite matter to write to my master concerning him. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and most of all before you, Sovereign Agrippa, so that after the examination has taken place I might have somewhat to write.
27 “For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to signify the charges against him.”