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Atos 25 — Bíblia The Message, 2002 | Gospelmais
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1Three days after Festus arrived in Caesarea to take up his duties as governor, he went up to Jerusalem.
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1Now Festus arrived in the province, and three days later he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea .
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2The high priests and top leaders renewed their vendetta against Paul.
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2And the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul , and they repeatedly pleaded with him,
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3They asked Festus if he wouldn't please do them a favor by sending Paul to Jerusalem to respond to their charges. A lie, of course—they had revived their old plot to set an ambush and kill him along the way.
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3asking as a concession against Paul, that he would have him brought to Jerusalem; (meanwhile planning an ambush to kill him on the way).
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4Festus answered that Caesarea was the proper jurisdiction for Paul, and that he himself was going back there in a few days.
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4Festus answered that Paul was being held in custody in Caesarea and that he himself was about to leave shortly.
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5"You're perfectly welcome," he said, "to go back with me then and accuse him of whatever you think he's done wrong."
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5"So," he said, "let those who are in a position of authority among you go there with me, and if there is anything criminal about the man, let them bring charges against him."
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6About eight or ten days later, Festus returned to Caesarea. The next morning he took his place in the courtroom and had Paul brought in.
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6Now after Festus had spent no more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal (the judicial bench), and ordered Paul to be brought .
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7The minute he walked in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem were all over him, hurling the most extreme accusations, none of which they could prove.
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7After Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious charges against him which they were not able to prove,
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8Then Paul took the stand and said simply, "I've done nothing wrong against the Jewish religion, or the Temple, or Caesar. Period."
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8while Paul declared in his own defense, "I have done no wrong and committed no offense either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar."
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9Festus, though, wanted to get on the good side of the Jews and so said, "How would you like to go up to Jerusalem, and let me conduct your trial there?"
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9But Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul, " Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial there in my presence on these charges?"
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10Paul answered, "I'm standing at this moment before Caesar's bar of justice, where I have a perfect right to stand. And I'm going to keep standing here. I've done nothing wrong to the Jews, and you know it as well as I do.
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10Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know.
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11If I've committed a crime and deserve death, name the day. I can face it. But if there's nothing to their accusations—and you know there isn't—nobody can force me to go along with their nonsense. We've fooled around here long enough. I appeal to Caesar."
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11Therefore, if I am guilty and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not try to escape death; but if there is nothing to the accusations which these men are bringing against me, no one can hand me over to them. I appeal to Caesar (Emperor Nero)."
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12Festus huddled with his advisors briefly and then gave his verdict: "You've appealed to Caesar; you'll go to Caesar!"
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12Then Festus, after conferring with his council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go."
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13A few days later King Agrippa and his wife, Bernice, visited Caesarea to welcome Festus to his new post.
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13Now several days later, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus .
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14After several days, Festus brought up Paul's case to the king. "I have a man on my hands here, a prisoner left by Felix.
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14While they were spending many days there, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a man here who was left as a prisoner by Felix.
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15When I was in Jerusalem, the high priests and Jewish leaders brought a bunch of accusations against him and wanted me to sentence him to death.
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15When I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews brought charges against him, petitioning for a sentence of condemnation against him.
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16I told them that wasn't the way we Romans did things. Just because a man is accused, we don't throw him out to the dogs. We make sure the accused has a chance to face his accusers and defend himself of the charges.
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16I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to hand over any man before the accused meets his accusers face to face and has the opportunity to defend himself against the charges.
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17So when they came down here I got right on the case. I took my place in the courtroom and put the man on the stand.
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17So after they arrived together here, I did not delay, but on the next day took my place on the tribunal and ordered that the man be brought before me.
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18"The accusers came at him from all sides,
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18When his accusers stood up, they brought no charges against him of crimes that I was expecting ,
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19but their accusations turned out to be nothing more than arguments about their religion and a dead man named Jesus, who the prisoner claimed was alive.
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19instead they had some points of disagreement with him about their own religion and about one Jesus, a man who had died, but whom Paul kept asserting and insisting to be alive.
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20Since I'm a newcomer here and don't understand everything involved in cases like this, I asked if he'd be willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there.
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20And I, being at a loss as to how to investigate these things, asked whether he was willing to go to Jerusalem and be tried there regarding these matters.
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21Paul refused and demanded a hearing before His Majesty in our highest court. So I ordered him returned to custody until I could send him to Caesar in Rome."
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21But when Paul appealed to be held in custody for a decision by the Emperor , I ordered him to be kept in custody until I could send him to Caesar."
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22Agrippa said, "I'd like to see this man and hear his story." "Good," said Festus. "We'll bring him in first thing in the morning and you'll hear it for yourself."
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22Then Agrippa said to Festus, "I would like to hear the man myself." "Tomorrow," Festus replied, "you will hear him."
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23The next day everybody who was anybody in Caesarea found his way to the Great Hall, along with the top military brass. Agrippa and Bernice made a flourishing grand entrance and took their places. Festus then ordered Paul brought in.
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23So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pageantry, and they went into the auditorium accompanied by the military commanders and the prominent men of the city. At the command of Festus, Paul was brought in.
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24Festus said, "King Agrippa and distinguished guests, take a good look at this man. A bunch of Jews petitioned me first in Jerusalem, and later here, to do away with him. They have been most vehement in demanding his execution.
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24Then Festus said, "King Agrippa and all you gentlemen present with us, you see this man about whom all the Jewish people appealed to me, both at Jerusalem and here, loudly insisting that he ought not to live any longer.
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25I looked into it and decided that he had committed no crime. He requested a trial before Caesar and I agreed to send him to Rome.
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25But I found that he had done nothing worthy of death; however, since he appealed to the Emperor , I decided to send him .
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26But what am I going to write to my master, Caesar? All the charges made by the Jews were fabrications, and I've uncovered nothing else. "That's why I've brought him before this company, and especially you, King Agrippa: so we can come up with something in the nature of a charge that will hold water.
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26But I have nothing specific about him to write to my lord. So I have brought him before all of you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the investigation has taken place, I will have something to put in writing.
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27For it seems to me silly to send a prisoner all that way for a trial and not be able to document what he did wrong."
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27For it seems absurd and unreasonable to me to send a prisoner without indicating the charges against him."