Acts 25:14-16

14When they had been there many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king, saying: “There is a certain man left a prisoner by Felix,

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

16To them I answered, ‘It is not the custom of the Romans to deliver any man to destruction before the accused meets the accusers face to face, and has opportunity to answer for himself concerning the charge against him.’