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Appeal to Caesar:
3 days after Caesar came into the province, Festus went up from Caesar to Jerusalem. The priests asked him a favor: to kill Paul.

Caesar then replied with: “Let your authorities come down with me, and if this man has done something improper, let themi accuse him.”

THE LESSONS

• Don't accuse when you have your own issues
• Don't deny your faith for god

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Agrippa said to Paul:“You may now speak on your own behalf.”
Paul:“I count myself fortunate, King Agrippa, that I am to defend myself before you today against all the charges made against me by the Jews,
Especially since you are an expert in all the Jewish customs and controversies. And therefore I beg you to listen patiently.
My manner of living from my youth, a life spent from the beginning among my people* and in Jerusalem, all [the] Jews know.
A They have known about me from the start, if they are willing to testify, that I have lived my life as a Pharisee, the strictest party of our religion.
But now I am standing trial because of my hope in the promise made by God to our ancestors.
Our twelve tribes hope to attain to that promise as they fervently worship God day and night; and on account of this hope I am accused by Jews, O king.
Why is it thought unbelievable among you that God raises the dead?
I myself once thought that I had to do many things against the name of Jesus the Nazorean,
And I did so in Jerusalem. I imprisoned many of the holy ones with the authorization I received from the chief priests, and when they were to be put to death I cast my vote against them.d
Many times, in synagogue after synagogue, I punished them in an attempt to force them to blaspheme; I was so enraged against them that I pursued them even to foreign cities.

LESSONS

• Prove right the innocent
• Don't accuse the right
• Fight for those who don't have a choice

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When it was decided that we should sail to Italy, they handed Paul and some other prisoners over to a centurion named Julius of the Cohort Augusta.*
We went on board a ship from Adramyttium bound for ports in the province of Asia and set sail. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, was with us.a
On the following day we put in at Sidon where Julius was kind enough to allow Paul to visit his friends who took care of him.
From there we put out to sea and sailed around the sheltered side of Cyprus because of the headwinds,
And crossing the open sea off the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra in Lycia.

LESSONS

• Don't promote the wrong

THE END