²¹ But when Paul made a request that he might be judged by Caesar, I gave orders for him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.

¹ Now it came about in those days that an order went out from Caesar Augustus that there was to be a numbering of all the world.

¹⁰ And Paul said, I am before the seat of Caesar's authority where it is right for me to be judged: I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you are well able to see.

¹¹ If, then, I am a wrongdoer and there is a cause of death in me, I am ready for death: if it is not as they say against me, no man may give me up to them. Let my cause come before Caesar.

³² And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been made free, if he had not put his cause before Caesar.

¹ And when the decision had been made that we were to go by sea to Italy, they gave Paul and certain other prisoners into the care of a captain named Julius, of the Augustan band.

¹⁶ At my first meeting with my judges, no one took my part, but all went away from me. May it not be put to their account.