13After some days had passed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus.14While they remained there for several more days, Festus presented the case concerning Paul to the king, saying, 'There is a certain man who was left as a prisoner by Felix.'15When I had gone to Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him and asked for judgment against him.16I answered them that it is not the custom of the Romans to hand over any person before the accused has met the accusers face to face and has had opportunity to make a defense concerning the accusation.17Therefore, when they had assembled here, I made no delay but on the next day sat on the judgment seat and ordered the man to be brought.18When the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of the evils of which I had supposed.19Instead they had certain disputes with him about their own religion and about a certain Jesus who had died, whom Paul claimed to be alive.20Being at a loss about how to investigate these matters, I asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be judged there concerning them.21But when Paul appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I ordered him to be held until I could send him to Caesar.22Agrippa then said to Festus that he also wished to hear the man himself. "Tomorrow," he asserts, "you will hear him."