For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner and not to signify the accusations against him."
Does our law judge a man before it hears from him first, and knows what he is doing?"
About whom I have nothing certain to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him before you, and especially before you King Agrippa, in order that when this hearing is finished I may have something to write.
Then Agrippa said to Paul, "It is permitted for you to speak in behalf of yourself." So Paul, having extended his hand, spoke in his own defense: