Cross reference
Acts 25:27
27 for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.'
Proverbs 18:13
13 Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.
John 7:51
51 `Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?'