Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me.

For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar. Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.

But when I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death, and that he himself hath appealed to Augustus, I have determined to send him.