Acts 26:32

New King James Version

Then Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

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who, when they had examined me, wanted to let me go, because there was no cause for putting me to death.

But when I found that he had committed nothing deserving of death, and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him.

But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.

But after two years Porcius Festus succeeded Felix; and Felix, wanting to do the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.

But when the Jews spoke against it, I was compelled to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything of which to accuse my nation.