And when it was disclosed to me that the Jews were about to carry out a plot against the man, I sent him immediately to you, and also commanded his accusers to state before you the charges against him. Farewell.

he said, I will fully hear you when your accusers also have come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod's Praetorium.

Therefore, he said, let those who have authority among you go down with me and accuse this man, whatever there might be in him.

about whom the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, when I was in Jerusalem, asking for a judgment against him.

To them I answered, It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before the accused meets the accusers face to face, and has opportunity to make a defense concerning the charge against him.