Acts 25:17 WEB

¹⁵  about whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

¹⁶  To whom I answered that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man to destruction, before the accused has met the accusers face to face, and has had opportunity to make his defense concerning the matter laid against him.

¹⁷  When therefore they had come together here, I didn't delay, but on the next day sat on the judgment seat, and commanded the man to be brought.

¹⁸  Concerning whom, when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge of such things as I supposed;

¹⁹  but had certain questions against him about their own religion, and about one Jesus, who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.