“Men and brethren,” he said, “though I have committed nothing against the people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans, who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because there was no cause of death in me. But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to appeal unto Caesar; not that I had aught to accuse my nation of. For this cause therefore have I called for you, to see you and to speak with you; because that for the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”{LP 275.2}

»Brødre!« sagde han »skønt jeg ikke har gjort noget, der kunne skade vort folk eller de fædrene skikke, kommer jeg dog som fange fra Jerusalem, overgivet i romernes hænder. De har forhørt mig og ville derefter løslade mig, fordi jeg ikke var skyldig i noget, som fortjener døden. Men da jøderne gjorde indsigelse, nødtes jeg til at indanke min sag for kejseren, dog ikke som om jeg havde noget at anklage nit eget folk for. Af denne grund har jeg nu indbudt jer for at hilse på jer og tale med jer; thi det er for Israels håbs skyld, at jeg er lagt i denne lænke.«