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Venuto, i Giudei, che eran discesi da Gerusalemme, lo circondarono, movendogli molte e gravi accuse che non potevano provare,

Dato ch'io sia colpevole e abbia fatto cosa degna di morte, non ricuso di morire; ma se nelle accuse di costoro non c'è nulla di vero, nessuno mi può donare ad essi. Mi appello a Cesare!».

Sembra infatti del tutto fuor di ragione mandare un carcerato senza dirle accuse contro di lui».

«Re Agrippa, io ho la fortuna di potermi oggi difendere davanti a te di tutte le accuse che mi fanno i Giudei,

Nous risquons, en effet, d’être accusés de sédition pour ce qui s’est passé aujourd’hui, puisqu’il n’existe aucun motif qui nous permette de justifier cet attroupement. Après ces paroles, il congédia l’assemblée.

J’ai trouvé qu’il était accusé au sujet de questions relatives à leur loi, mais qu’il n’avait commis aucun crime qui mérite la mort ou la prison.

Paul fut appelé, et Tertulle se mit à l’accuser, en ces termes :

Et ils ne sauraient prouver ce dont ils m’accusent maintenant.

Que les principaux d’entre vous descendent avec moi, dit-il, et s’il y a quelque chose de coupable en cet homme, qu’ils l’accusent.

Je leur ai répondu que ce n’est pas la coutume des Romains de livrer un homme avant que l’inculpé ait été mis en présence de ses accusateurs, et qu’il ait eu la faculté de se défendre sur les choses dont on l’accuse.

Car il me semble absurde d’envoyer un prisonnier sans indiquer de quoi on l’accuse.

Je m’estime heureux, roi Agrippa, d’avoir aujourd’hui à me justifier devant toi de toutes les choses dont je suis accusé par les Juifs,

et à laquelle aspirent nos douze tribus, qui servent Dieu continuellement nuit et jour. C’est pour cette espérance, ô roi, que je suis accusé par des Juifs !

Mais les Juifs s’y opposèrent, et j’ai été forcé d’en appeler à César, n’ayant du reste aucun dessein d’accuser ma nation.

For indeed we are in danger of being accused concerning this day’s riot, there being no cause. Concerning it, we wouldn’t be able to give an account of this commotion.”

But on the next day, desiring to know the truth about why he was accused by the Jews, he freed him from the bonds, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to come together, and brought Paul down and set him before them.

Desiring to know the cause why they accused him, I brought him down to their council.

I found him to be accused about questions of their law, but not to be charged with anything worthy of death or of imprisonment.

When I was told that the Jews lay in wait for the man, I sent him to you immediately, charging his accusers also to bring their accusations against him before you. Farewell.”

“I will hear you fully when your accusers also arrive.” He commanded that he be kept in Herod’s palace.

When he was called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “Seeing that by you we enjoy much peace, and that excellent measures are coming to this nation,

But the chief captain Lysias came, and with great violence took him away out of our hands commanding his accusers to come before thee.

By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”

Nor can they prove to you the things of which they now accuse me.

“Let them therefore,” said he, “that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”

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.

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

“I think myself happy, King Agrippa, that I am to make my defense before you this day concerning all the things that I am accused by the Jews,

which our twelve tribes, earnestly serving night and day, hope to attain. Concerning this hope I am accused by the Jews, King Agrippa!

But when the Jews spoke against it, I was constrained to appeal to Caesar, not that I had anything about which to accuse my nation.