使徒行傳 25
1 托到省上任，三天以後，就從凱撒勒雅上了耶路撒冷。
Three days after Festus entered his province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
2 司祭長和猶太人的首領，向他告發保祿，並請求他開恩，
The high priest and the Jewish leaders laid charges against Paul before him.
3 來對付保祿，就是求他將保祿解到耶路撒冷來，他們好設下埋伏，在半路上將他殺掉。
They urged him, asking it as a favor, to send for him to Jerusalem. They meant to lay in wait for him and kill him on the way.
4 可是，斐斯托回答說：「保祿應押在凱撒勒雅，我自己不久就快回去；」
But Festus answered that Paul was in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was going there soon.
5 又說：「你們中有權勢的人，跟我一同下去，若在那人身上有什麼不對處，控告他好了。」
"Let those then," he said, "who are in authority among you, go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse him."
6 斐斯托在他們中住了不過八天或十天，就下到了凱撒勒雅。第二天坐堂，下令將保祿帶來；
After staying not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day, after taking his seat upon the tribunal, he ordered Paul to be brought.
7 保祿一來到，從耶路撒冷下來的猶太人就圍住他，提出許多嚴重而不能證明的罪狀。
When he came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought a number of serious charges against him, which they could not prove.
8 保祿分辯說：「我對於猶太人的法律，對於聖殿，對於凱撒，都沒有犯什麼罪。」
Paul said in his defense, "I have committed no crime against the Law of the Jews, against the Temple, or against Caesar."
9 斐斯托想要向猶太人討好，就向保祿說：「關於這些事，你願意上耶路撒冷，在那裏於我面前受審嗎﹖」
But Festus, wishing to ingratiate himself with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there by me upon these charges?"
10 保祿卻說：「我站在凱撒的公堂前，我該在這裏受審。我對猶太人並沒有作過不對的事，就是你也知道的很清楚。
"I am standing before Caesar’s tribunal," answered Paul, "where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.
11 假如我作了不對的事，或作了什麼該死的事，我雖死不辭；但若這些人所控告我的，都是實無其事，那麼誰也不能將我交與他們；我向凱撒上訴。」
"If I am a criminal and have done anything for which I ought to die, I do not object to die. But if none of their charges is true, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar."
12 斐斯托與議會商議之後，回答說：「你既向凱撒上訴，就往凱撒那裏去!」
Then Festus, after conferring with the council, answered. "You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go."
13 過了幾天，阿格黎帕王同貝勒尼切到了凱撒勒雅，向斐斯托致候。
A short time after this King Agrippa and Bernice came to Caesarea to pay their respects to Festus.
14 他們在那裏住了多日，斐斯托就將保祿的事件，陳述給王說：「這裏有一個人，是斐理斯留在獄中的囚犯。
And while they tarried many days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king. "There is a man here," he said, "whom Felix left a prisoner.
15 我在耶路撒冷的時候，司祭長和猶太人的長老告發他，要求定他的罪。
"The chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me about him, when I was at Jerusalem, demanding a sentence against him.
16 我回答他們說：當被告還沒有與原告當面對質，還沒有機會辯護控告他的事以前，就將那人交出，不合羅馬人的規例。
I told them that it was not the custom of the Romans to give any man up for punishment, before the accused had his accusers face to face, and had opportunity of defending himself against the charges that had been brought against him.
17 及至他們來到這裏，我一點也沒有遲延，次日便坐堂，下令把那人帶來。
"So when a number of them came together here, I made no delay, but the next day took my seat in the tribunal, and commanded the man to be brought.
18 原告站起來，對他沒有提出一件罪案，是我所逆料的惡事；
"But when his accusers stood up, they did not begin charging him with any of the crimes that I was expecting,
19 他們的爭辯，僅是關於他們的宗教及關於一個已死的耶穌，保祿卻說他還活著。
but they kept quarreling with him about certain matters connected with their own religion, and about one Jesus who had died, but whom Paul affirmed over and over was alive.
20 我對這爭執不知如何處理，就問他是否願意去耶路撒冷，在那裏受審。
I was perplexed how to investigate such questions, and asked Paul whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.
21 可是，保祿卻要求上訴，將他留給皇帝審斷，我便下令留下他，等我解他到凱撒那裏。」
But when Paul appealed to have his case reviewed for the decision of the Emperor, I ordered him to be detained until I could send him up to Caesar."
22 阿格黎帕向斐斯托說：「我也願意親自聽聽這個人。」斐斯托說：「明天你就可以聽他。」
"I should like to hear the man, myself," said Agrippa to Festus. Festus answered, "You shall hear him tomorrow."
23 第二天，阿格黎帕和貝勒尼切來時甚是排場，偕同千夫長及城裏的要人進了廳堂；斐斯托下令，把保祿帶來。
So the next day Agrippa and Bernice came with great pomp, and took their places in the hall of audience, accompanied by the tribunes and men of high rank in the city. At the command of Festus Paul was brought in.
24 斐斯托說：「阿格黎帕王和同我們在場的眾人，你們看這個人，為了他，所有的猶太群眾曾在耶路撒冷和這裏向我請求，呼喊說：不該容他再活下去。
"King Agrippa," said Festus, "and all men who are present with us, you see here the man about whom the entire body of the Jews at Jerusalem, and here also, sent to me, crying out that he ought not to live any longer.
25 但我查明他並沒有作過什麼該死的事。他既把這案子向皇帝上訴了，我便決定把他解去。
"I could not find that he had done anything for which he ought to die; but as he himself has appealed to the Emperor, I have determined to send him.
26 我對這人沒有什麼確實的事可向主上陳奏；因此我將他帶到你們前，尤其你阿格黎帕王前，好在審訊以後，有所陳奏，
"Now I have nothing very definite to tell our sovereign about him. So I have brought the man before you all, and especially before you, King Agrippa, in order that, after examination, I may have something to write.
27 因為我以為，解送囚犯而不指明他的罪狀，於理不合。」
"For it does seem to me unreasonable to send a person without signifying the charges against him."
