For it seems to me unreasonable, in sending a prisoner, not to indicate the charges against him."
If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame.
"Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?"
But I have nothing definite to write to my lord about him. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after we have examined him, I may have something to write.
So Agrippa said to Paul, "You have permission to speak for yourself." Then Paul stretched out his hand and made his defense: