Acts 25:27

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For it does not seem reasonable for me to send a prisoner [to Rome] without indicating what the [formal] charges are against him.”

Cross References

John 7:51

“Does our law pass judgment on a man before first hearing from him and learning what he did?”

Acts 25:26

But I do not have anything specific to write to His Majesty. This is the reason I have brought him before this assembly, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after you have questioned him, I would [then] have something [substantial] to write.

Acts 26:1

Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You have permission to speak for yourself.” So, Paul motioned [to the assembly] with his hand [for attention] and began speaking in his defense: