For if I am doing wrong, and have done anything worthy of death, I am not trying to escape a death sentence; but if there is nothing in these things of which these [people] are accusing me, no one is able to deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar."

Then Festus, having talked together with the council, answered, " Have you appealed to Caesar? Before Caesar you shall go!"

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.

who, when they had examined me, were wanting to release me because there was no cause for my case.