For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not to signify the things laid to his charge.
Doth our law judge any man, unless it first hear him, and know what he doth?
He that answereth before he heareth sheweth himself to be a fool, and worthy of confusion.
Of whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. For which cause I have brought him forth before you, and especially before thee, O king Agrippa, that examination being made, I may have what to write.
THEN Agrippa said to Paul: Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretching forth his hand, began to make his answer.