NET Bible
"Because I was at a loss how I could investigate these matters, I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges."
— Acts 25:20, NET Bible
“And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.”
“And I, being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these matters. ”
“Being perplexed how to inquire concerning these things, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and there be judged concerning these matters.”
“I therefore being in a doubt of this manner of question, asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem and there be judged of these things.”
“And as I had not enough knowledge for the discussion of these things, I made the suggestion to him to go to Jerusalem and be judged there.”
“And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.”
So after they came back here with me, I did not postpone the case, but the next day I sat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought.
When his accusers stood up, they did not charge him with any of the evil deeds I had suspected.
Rather they had several points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about a man named Jesus who was dead, whom Paul claimed to be alive.
Because I was at a loss how I could investigate these matters, I asked if he were willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there on these charges.
But when Paul appealed to be kept in custody for the decision of His Majesty the Emperor, I ordered him to be kept under guard until I could send him to Caesar.”
Agrippa said to Festus,“I would also like to hear the man myself.”“Tomorrow,” he replied,“you will hear him.”
Paul Before King Agrippa and Bernice So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp and entered the audience hall, along with the senior military officers and the prominent men of the city. When Festus gave the order, Paul was brought in.