Catholic Public Domain Version
"Truly, I have discovered nothing brought forth against him that is worthy of death. But since he himself has appealed to Augustus, it was my judgment to send him. "
— Acts 25:25, Catholic Public Domain Version
“But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.”
“But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death: and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him. ”
“But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him.”
“But I found that he had done nothing that deserved death, and when he appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.”
“Yet have I found nothing that he hath committed worthy of death. But forasmuch as he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.”
“But, in my opinion, there is no cause of death in him, and as he himself has made a request to be judged by Caesar, I have said that I would send him.”
“But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.”
Then Agrippa said to Festus: “I myself also want to hear the man.” “Tomorrow,” he said, “you shall hear him.”
And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had arrived with great ostentation and had entered into the auditorium with the tribunes and the principal men of the city, Paul was brought in, at the order of Festus.
And Festus said: “King Agrippa, and all who are present together with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews disturbed me at Jerusalem, petitioning and clamoring that he should not be allowed to live any longer.
Truly, I have discovered nothing brought forth against him that is worthy of death. But since he himself has appealed to Augustus, it was my judgment to send him.
But I have not determined what to write to the emperor about him. Because of this, I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, so that, once an inquiry has occurred, I may have something to write.
For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner and not to indicate the accusations set against him.”