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And after certaine dayes, king Agrippa and Bernice, came vnto Cesarea, to salute Festus.

And when they had beene there many dayes, Festus declared Pauls cause vnto the king, saying, There is a certaine man left in bonds by Felix:

About whom when I was at Hierusalem, the chiefe Priests and the Elders of the Iewes enformed me, desiring to haue iudgement against him.

To whom I answered, It is not the maner of the Romanes to deliuer any man to die, before that he which is accused, haue the accusers face to face, and haue licence to answere for himselfe concerning the crime laid against him.

Therefore when they were come hither, without any delay, on the morrow I sate on the iudgement seate, and comanded the man to be brought forth.

Against whom when the accusers stood vp, they brought none accusation of such things as I supposed:

But had certaine questions against him of their owne superstition, and of one Iesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be aliue.

And because I doubted of such maner of questions, I asked him whether he would goe to Hierusalem, and there be iudged of these matters.

But when Paul had appealed to bee reserued vnto the hearing of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept, till I might send him to Cesar.

Then Agrippa said vnto Festus, I would also heare the man my selfe. To morrow, said he, thou shalt heare him.