For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not to signify the charges against him.
If one answers a matter before he hears, it is folly and shame to him.
Does our law judge the Man before it hears Him and knows what He does?
about whom I have no certain thing to write of him to my lord. Therefore I brought him before you, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, so that, after examination is made, I might have something to write.
And Agrippa said to Paul, You are permitted to speak for yourself. Then stretching out his hand, Paul made a defense: