17 And after the third day, he called together the leaders of the Jews. And when they had convened, he said to them: 'Noble brothers, I have done nothing against the people, nor against the customs of the fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
18 And after they held a hearing about me, they would have released me, because there was no case for death against me.
19 But with the Jews speaking against me, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, though it was not as if I had any kind of accusation against my own nation.
20 And so, because of this, I requested to see you and to speak to you. For it is because of the hope of Israel that I am encircled with this chain.'
21 But they said to him: 'We have not received letters about you from Judea, nor have any of the other new arrivals among the brothers reported or spoken anything evil against you.
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