¶ Agrippa said unto Paul: Thou art permitted to speak for thyself. Then Paul stretched forth his hand, and answered for himself:
Doth our law judge any man, before it be heard, and known, what he hath done?
¶ Ye men, brethren, and fathers, hear mine answer which I make unto you.
To whom I answered: It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man that he should perish, before that he which is accused, have the accusers before him, and have license to answer for himself, as pertaining to the crime whereof he is accused:
For me thinketh it unreasonable for to send a prisoner, and not to shew the causes, which are laid against him.
I think myself happy King Agrippa, because I shall answer this day before thee of all the things whereof I am accused of the jewes,
The Lord said unto him: Go thy ways: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the gentiles, and kings and the children of Israhel:
And against Israhel he saith: All day long have I stretched forth my hands unto a people that believeth not, but speaketh against me.