for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.’
Whoso is answering a matter before he heareth, Folly it is to him and shame.
‘Doth our law judge the man, if it may not hear from him first, and know what he doth?’
concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to [my] lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;
And Agrippa said unto Paul, ‘It is permitted to thee to speak for thyself;’ then Paul having stretched forth the hand, was making a defence: