For it seems to me unreasonable sending one in bonds, and not to signify the charges against him.
He turning back the word before he shall hear it, is folly and shame to him.
Our law judges not a man, except it first hear from him, and know what he does.
Of whom I have not anything certain to write to the lord. Wherefore I brought him to you, and especially to thee, king Agrippa, so that, examination having been, I should have some thing to write.
And Agrippa said to Paul, It is permitted thee to speak for thyself. Then Paul defended himself, having stretched out the hand: