For it seems unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without indicating the charges against him.”
“Does our law condemn a man without first giving him a hearing and finding out what he is doing?”
Yet I have nothing definite to write to my lord about this man. Therefore I have brought him before you all, and especially before yoʋ, King Agrippa, so that after we have had this preliminary hearing, I may have something to write.
Then Agrippa said to Paul, “Yoʋ have permission to speak for yoʋrself.” So Paul stretched out his hand and began to make his defense: