The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

¶ The .xxv. Chapter.

[ A] * 1.1

VVhen Festus was come into the pro¦vince / after thre dayes / he ascended frō Cesarea vnto Ierusalem. Then enformed him the hye prestes & the chefe of the Iewes of Paul. And they be sought him / & desired faveour agaynst him / that he wold sende for him to Ierusalem: & layde awayte for him in the waye to kill him. Festus answe¦red / that Paul shuld be kept at Cesarea: but that he him selfe wold shortly departe thi∣ther. Let thē therfore (sayd he) which amōge you are able to do it / come doune with vs and accuse him / if ther be eny faute in the man.

When he had taried there moare then ten [ B] dayes / he departed vnto Cesarea / & the nexte daye sate doune in the iudgemēt seate / & com¦maunded Paul to be brought. When he was come / the Iewes which were come frō Ierusa¦lem / came aboute him & layde many & greve∣ous complayntes agaynst Paul / which they coulde not prove as longe as he answered for him selfe / that he had nether agaynst the lawe of the Iewes / nether agaynst the temple / nor yet agaynst Cesar offended eny thinge at all.

Festus willinge to do the Iewes a pleasu¦re / answered Paul & sayde: wilt thou goo to [ C] Ierusalem / and there be iudged of these thin¦ges before me? Then sayd Paul: I stonde at Cesars iudgemēt seate / where I ought to be iudged. To y^e Iewes have I no harme done / as thou verely well knowest. If I have hurte them / or cōmitted eny thinge worthy of deeth I refuse not to dye. Yf none of these thinges are / where of they accuse me / no man owght* 1.2 to delyver me to them. I appeale vnto Ce∣sar. Then spake Festus with deliberacion / & answered. Thou hast appealed vnto Cesar: vnto Cesar shalt thou goo.

After a certayne dayes / kinge Agrippa and* 1.3 Bernice came vnto Cesarea to salute Fe∣stus. And when they had bene there a good [ D] ceason / Festus rehersed Paules cause vnto y^• kynge sayinge: ther is a certayne man left in preson of Felix / about whom when I came to Ierusalem / the hye prestes & elders of the Iewes enformed me / & desyred to have iudge∣ment agaynst him. To whom I answered: It is not the maner of the Romayns to delyver eny man / that he shuld perisshe / before that he which is accused / have the accusars before him / and have licence to answer for him selfe / conserninge y^• cryme layde agaynst him: whē [ E] they were come hidder / w^t out delaye on the morowe I sate to geve iudgement / & cōmaun¦ded y^• mā to be brought forthe. Agaynst whō when y^• accusers stode vp / they brought none accusacion of soche thing{is} as I supposed: but

had certayne questions agaynst him of their awne supersticion / & of one Iesus which was ded: whom Paul affirmed to be alyve. And be¦cause I douted of soche maner questions / I ayed him whyther he wolde goo to Ierusa∣lem / & there be iudged of these matters. Then when Paul had appealed to be kept vnto the knowledge of Cesar / I commaunded him to be kept / tyll I myght sende him to Cesar.

Agrippa sayd vnto Festus: I wolde also [ F] heare y^e man my selfe. To morowe (sayde he) thou shalt heare him. And on y^e morowe when Agrippa was come and Bernice with greate pompe / & were entred into the counsell housse with the captaynes & chefe men of the cite / at Festus commaundement Paul was brought forth. And Festus sayde: kynge Agrippa / & all men which are heare present w^t vs: ye se this man about whom all the multitude of the Ie¦wes have bene with me both at Ierusalem and also here / cryinge that he ought not to ly∣ve eny lenger. Yet founde I nothinge worthy [ G] of deeth that he had cōmitted. Neverthelesse seinge that he hath appealed to Cesar / I ha∣ve determined to sende him. Of whom I ha∣ve no certayne thinge to wryte vnto my lorde. Wherfore I have brought him vnto you / and specially vnto the / kynge Agrippa / that after examinacion had / I myght have sum∣what to wryte. For me thynketh it vnreaso∣nable / for to sende a presoner / and not to she∣we the causes which are layde agaynst him.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Festus Porcius.
• * 1.2

  Paule ap¦pealed.
• * 1.3

  Agrippa