For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without signifying the charges against him.”
He who answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him.
“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”
But I have nothing to write to my lord concerning him. Therefore I have brought him before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the examination has taken place, I might have something to write.
Then Agrippa said to Paul, “You are permitted to speak for yourself.” So Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: