Библия - Деяния, глава 25 - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

Festus, having arrived in the region, set out from Caesarea for Jerusalem three days later.

Then the high priest and the leading Jews came to him with a complaint against Paul and urged him,

begging him to show him mercy and summon him to Jerusalem; and they plotted to kill him on the road.

But Festus replied that Paul was being held in Caesarea and that he himself would soon set out there.

Therefore, he said, let those of you who are able go with me, and if there is anything against this man, let them accuse him.

Having stayed with them no more than eight or ten days, he returned to Caesarea. The next day, sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded that Paul be brought.

When he arrived, the Jews who had come from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many serious accusations against Paul, which they could not prove. He defended himself by saying, "I have committed no offense against the Jewish law, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar."

Festus, wishing to please the Jews, answered Paul, "Do you wish to go to Jerusalem so that I may judge you of this?"

Paul replied, "I stand before Caesar's tribunal, where I ought to be judged. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you well know.

For if I have done wrong and committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. And if none of these things of which these accuse me are true, no one can hand me over to them. I demand Caesar's judgment."

Then Festus, having consulted the council, replied, "You have demanded Caesar's judgment, and to Caesar you will go."

A few days later, King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea to congratulate Festus.

After they had spent many days there, Festus laid Paul's case before the king, saying, "There is a man here, left in bonds by Felix,

against whom, while I was in Jerusalem, the chief priests and elders of the Jews came with a complaint, demanding his condemnation."

I answered them that it is not the Roman custom to hand over anyone to death before the accused has had his accusers present and has been given liberty to defend himself.

When they arrived, without any delay, the next day I sat down on the judgment seat and commanded that the man be brought.

The accusers, when they surrounded him, brought none of the charges I had proposed;

but they had some disputes with him about their worship of God and about a certain Jesus who had died, whom Paul claimed to be alive.

Being at a loss to decide this question, I said, "Does he wish to go to Jerusalem and be judged there on this matter?" But when Paul demanded to be retained for Augustus' trial, I ordered him to be kept in custody until I could send him to Caesar.

Agrippa said to Festus, "I too would like to hear this man." "Tomorrow," he replied, "you will hear him."

The next day, when Agrippa and Bernice arrived with great pomp and entered the courtroom with the captains and leading citizens, Paul was brought in by Festus's command.

And Festus said, "King Agrippa and all the men present with us, you see him against whom the whole multitude of the Jews came to me in Jerusalem and here, crying out that he should not live any longer."

But I found that he had done nothing worthy of death; and since he himself had demanded trial from Augustus, I decided to send him to him.

I have nothing certain to write about him to the emperor; Therefore I have brought him before you, and especially before you, King Agrippa, so that, after consideration, I will have something to write.

For it seems to me unreasonable to send a prisoner without showing the charges against him.