¹Zvino Festo wakati asvika padunhu iro shure kwemazuva matatu akakwira kuJerusarema achibva Kesariya.

¹Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,

²Ipapo vapristi vakuru nevakuru vevaJudha vakamhan'arira Pauro kwaari, vakamukumbirisa,

²and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews made manifest to him [the things] against Paul, and were calling on him,

³vakakumbira kuti avafadze pamusoro pake, kuti amudanire kuJerusarema, vakamuvandira kuti vamuuraye panzira.

³asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.

⁴Asi Festo wakapindura kuti Pauro wakachengetwa Kesariya, uye kuti iye amene wakange okurumidza kuendako.

⁴Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and himself is about speedily to go on thither,

⁵Akati: Naizvozvo avo vanokwanisa pakati penyu ngavaburuke neni; vagopomera munhu uyu kana pane chakaipa maari.

⁵`Therefore those able among you — saith he — having come down together, if there be anything in this man — let them accuse him;`

⁶Wakati agara pakati pavo mazuva anopfuura gumi, wakuburukira Kesariya; chifume agara pachigaro chekutonga akaraira Pauro kuti auiswe.

⁶and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought;

⁷Zvino wakati asvika, vaJudha vakaburuka vachibva kuJerusarema vakamira vakamukomba, vakapomera Pauro mhosva zhinji dzakaipa, dzavakange vasingagoni kupa uchapupu.

⁷and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem — many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,

⁸Zvino wakati achizvidavirira akati: Kumurairo wevaJudha, kana kutembere, kanawo kuna Kesari handina kutadza chinhu.

⁸he making defence — `Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar — did I commit any sin.`

⁹Zvino Festo achida kufadza vaJudha, akapindura Pauro akati: Unoda here kukwira kuJerusarema, unotongwako pamusoro pezvinhu izvi pamberi pangu?

⁹And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, `Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?`

¹⁰Ipapo Pauro akati: Ndimire pamberi pechigaro chekutonga chaKesari, pandinofanira kutongwa; kuvaJudha handina kuita zvisakarurama, sezvamunoziva imwiwo.

¹⁰and Paul said, `At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;

¹¹Zvino kana ndiri mudariki kana kuti ndakaita chinhu chakafanira rufu handirambi kufa; asi kana pasina chinhu chezvinhu izvi zvavanondipomera, hakuna munhu ungandikumikidza kwavari. Ndinozvipfuuridzira kuna Kesari.

¹¹for if indeed I am unrighteous, and anything worthy of death have done, I deprecate not to die; and if there is none of the things of which these accuse me, no one is able to make a favour of me to them; to Caesar I appeal!`

¹²Ipapo Festo ataurirana nedare remakurukota, akapindura akati: Waipfuudzira kuna Kesari? Kuna Kesari uchaenda.

¹²then Festus, having communed with the council, answered, `To Caesar thou hast appealed; to Caesar thou shalt go.`

¹³Zvino mushure memamwe mazuva, mambo Agripa naBhenike vakasvika Kesariya kuzokwazisa Festo.

¹³And certain days having passed, Agrippa the king, and Bernice, came down to Caesarea saluting Festus,

¹⁴Vakati vagarako mazuva mazhinji, Festo akarondedzera mhosva yaPauro kuna mambo, achiti: Kune umwe murume wakasiiwa naFerikisi ari musungwa;

¹⁴and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, `There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,

¹⁵iye wandakati pandakange ndichiri kuJerusarema, vapristi vakuru nevakuru vevaJudha vakamumhan'arira, vachikumbira mutongo pamusoro pake.

¹⁵about whom, in my being at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid information, asking a decision against him,

¹⁶Vandakapindura ndikati: Haizi tsika yevaRoma kukumikidza munhu kurufu, uyo unopomerwa asati ambotarisana nevanomupomera, akapiwa mukana wekuzvipindurira pamhosva yaanopomerwa.

¹⁶unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against [him].

¹⁷Zvino vakati vaungana pano, handina kunonoka, chifume ndakagara pachigaro chekutonga, ndikaraira kuti murume auyiswe.

¹⁷`They, therefore, having come together — I, making no delay, on the succeeding [day] having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,

¹⁸Zvino vapomeri vakamusimukira, asi havana kumupomera mhosva sezvandaifungira;

¹⁸concerning whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing against [him] no accusation of the things I was thinking of,

¹⁹asi vaipikisana nezvemamwe mashoko echitendero chavo, neumwe Jesu wakange afa, wainzi naPauro mupenyu.

¹⁹but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;

²⁰Zvino ini zvandakange ndichikahadzika maererano negakava rakadai, ndakabvunza kana achida kuenda Jerusasrema kunotongwa ikoko pamusoro pezvinhu izvi.

²⁰and I, doubting in regard to the question concerning this, said, If he would wish to go on to Jerusalem, and there to be judged concerning these things —

²¹Pauro wakati akumbira kuregerwa kuzobvunzwa naAgasito, ndakaraira kuti achengetwe kusvikira ndichimutumira kuna Kesari.

²¹but Paul having appealed to be kept to the hearing of Sebastus, I did command him to be kept till I might send him unto Caesar.`

²²Agripa ndokuti kuna Festo; Neni ndinoda kunzwa munhu uyu ndomene. Iye akati: Mangwana muchamunzwa.

²²And Agrippa said unto Festus, `I was wishing also myself to hear the man;` and he said, `To-morrow thou shalt hear him;`

²³Chifume Agripa wakati asvika naBhenike, vachitaridzika kwazvo, vakapinda mumba mekutambirwa mhosva, nevatungamiriri vakuru, nevakuru veguta sekuraira kwaFesto, vakauya naPauro.

²³on the morrow, therefore — on the coming of Agrippa and Bernice with much display, and they having entered into the audience chamber, with the chief captains also, and the principal men of the city, and Festus having ordered — Paul was brought forth.

²⁴Zvino Festo akati: Mambo Agripa, nevarume vose vari pano nesu, munoona uyu, wandakakumbirwa nechaunga chevaJudha zvose paJerusarema nepano, vachidanidzira kuti haafaniri kuramba achirarama.

²⁴And Festus said, `King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;

²⁵Asi ini ndakati ndawana kuti haana kuita chinhu chakafanira rufu, uye kuti iye pachake wakakumbira kupfuudzwa kuna mambo mukuru, ndazvigadzirira kumutumira.

²⁵and I, having found him to have done nothing worthy of death, and he also himself having appealed to Sebastus, I decided to send him,

²⁶Asi handina chinhu chaicho chandinganyorera ishe pamusoro pake, naizvozvo ndauya naye pamberi penyu, zvikuru pamberi penyu, mambo Agripa, kuti mamubvunzurudza, ndingava nechandinganyora.

²⁶concerning whom I have no certain thing to write to [my] lord, wherefore I brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that the examination having been made, I may have something to write;

²⁷Nekuti ndinoona sezvisina kufanira kutuma musungwa, pasina kutaridzwa mhosva dzakanangana naye.

²⁷for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.`