the chief captain commanded him be brought into the castle, bidding that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so shouted against him.
whom I found to be accused about questions of their law, but to have nothing laid to his charge worthy of death or of bonds.
But I found that he had committed nothing worthy of death: and as he himself appealed to the emperor I determined to send him.
and when they had withdrawn, they spake one to another, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.
And Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.