17. And after the third day, he called together the chief of the Jews. And when they were assembled, he said to them: Men, brethren, I, having done nothing against the people, or the custom of our fathers, was delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans;
18. Who, when they had examined me, would have released me, for that there was no cause of death in me;
19. But the Jews contradicting it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had any thing to accuse my nation of.
20. For this cause therefore I desired to see you, and to speak to you. Because that for the hope of Israel, I am bound with this chain.