"For if I am an offender, or have committed anything deserving of death, I do not object to dying; but if there is nothing in these things of which these men accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar."

Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!"

"But when I found that he had committed nothing deserving of death, and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him.

"who, when they had examined me, wanted to let [me] go, because there was no cause for putting me to death.