To them I answered, 'It is not a custom with Romans to deliver any man to destruction before the [one] being accused may meet his accusers face to face, and may receive an opportunity for defense concerning the charge.'

And when it became known to me that a plot against the man by the Jews was about to happen, I sent him at once to you, and also commanded the accusers to state the charges against him before you. Farewell.

from whom you will be able, having judged [him] yourself, to learn about all these things of which we are accusing him."

concerning whom, when the accusers stood, they brought no accusation of the things which I was supposing,

but had some questions against him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus, who had died, whom Paul affirmed to be living.

But when I came to understand him to have done nothing worthy of death, and also he had appealed to His Majesty the Emperor, I decided to send him.

And when Paul was about to open his mouth, Gallio said to the Jews, "If then it was some misdeed or wicked crime, O Jews, according to reason I would bear with you.

[ 24:12] And behold, the skirt of your mantle is in my hand, I cut off the skirt, and did not kill you. Know then and see this day, there is no evil in my hand, nor impiety, nor rebellion; and I have not sinned against you, yet you lay snares for my life, to take it.

[ 24:13] The Lord judge between me and you, and the Lord vindicate you on yourself. But my hand shall not be upon you.

O Lord my God, if I have done this; (if there is unrighteousness in my hands)

Let the enemy persecute my soul, and take it; and let him trample my life on the ground, and lay my glory in the dust. Pause.

Then Pilate went out to them and said, "What accusation do you bring against this Man?"

They answered and said to him, "If He were not an evildoer, we would not have delivered Him over to you."