And Agrippa said to Festus, This man was able to have been released, if he had not appealed to Caesar.
But two years being completed, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus. And wishing to lay up favors to the Jews, Felix left Paul being bound.
But I having understood nothing he had done worthy of death, also this one himself having appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him;
who examining me were of a mind to let me go, because no cause of death was in me.
But the Jews speaking against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not as having anything to accuse my nation.
And the Lord said to him, Go, for this one is a vessel of election to Me, to bear My name before nations and kings and the sons of Israel.