TRIAL V. AND LAST.--PLACE, STILL CÆSAREA. This requires some previous explanation. A few days after the last preceding trial, came to Cæsarea, says verse 13, _Agrippa and Bernice_: Festus being still there: Agrippa, sub-king of the Jews under the Romans: Bernice, it may be presumed, his queen: saluting this their superior, their only business mentioned. Follows thereupon a conversation, of which Defendant is the subject, and which continues the length of fourteen verses. Defendant having appealed to Caesar, judge has determined to send him to Caesar accordingly. But, considering that, by the emperor, on the arrival of a man sent to him in the character of a prisoner, some assigned cause, for his having been put into that condition, will naturally be looked for; and, as the only offences, the Jew stands charged with, are of a sort, which, while to the heathen emperor they would not be intelligible, would to a Jew sub-king, if to any one, be sufficiently so;--thereupon it is, that he desires his sub-majesty to join with him in the hearing of the cause, and by that means put him in a way to report upon it. Speaking of the accusers, "they brought," says Festus to Agrippa in verse 18, "none accusation of such things as I supposed.--But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.--And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.--But Paul...had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of Augustus..." Such, as above noticed, is the declaration which the historian puts into the mouth of Festus: and this, after having so recently made Paul tell Festus, that his, Paul's, having done no wrong to the Jews, was to him, Festus, matter of such perfect knowledge.[82] Now then comes the trial, Acts 26:1. Scene, at Cæsarea, the Emperor's Bench. Lord chief justice, Roman governor Festus; Puisne judge, Jew sub-king Agrippa. Present, "Bernice...chief captains and principal men of the city." Special accusers, none. Sole speaker, whose speech is reported, the Defendant. Points in Defendant's speech, these: 1. Verses 2 and 3. Patient hearing requested, acknowledgment of Agrippa's special confidence. 2. Verses 4 and 5. Protestation of Phariseeism. 3. Verses 6, 7, 8. Same false insinuation as before,--Phariseeism the sole crime imputed to him. 4. Verses 9, 10, 11. Confession or avowal, whichever it is to be called, of his proceedings six-and-twenty years before, against the Christianized Jews, shutting them up in prison, in pursuance of authority from "the chief priests," down to the time of his conversion-vision. See Table I. Conversion Table. 5. Verses 12 to 20. Account of this same vision. See that same Table.