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.'

Whoever answers a word before he hears [a cause], it is folly and reproach to him.

A righteous man accuses himself at the beginning of his speech, but when he has entered upon the attack, the adversary is reproved.

Does our law judge a man before it hears from him first, and knows what he is doing?"

Since I called, and you did not hear, and I spoke at length, and you gave no heed;

And if I stretch out My hand against you, then will I abolish your statutes, and deliver [you] up to the will of those that hate you, [even to] the daughters of the Philistines that turned you aside from the way in which you sinned.

But to Israel he says: "the whole day long I have stretched out My hands to a disobedient and contrary people."

I have considered myself fortunate, King Agrippa, being able to speak in my own defense today, concerning all the things of which I am accused of by the Jews,

"Men, brothers and fathers, hear my defense to you now."