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

¹Festus therefore, being come into the eparchy, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

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

²And the chief priests and the chief of the Jews laid informations before him against Paul, and besought him,

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

³asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, laying people in wait to kill him on the way.

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

⁴Festus therefore answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.

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

⁵Let therefore the persons of authority among you, says he, going down too, if there be anything in this man, accuse him.

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

⁶And having remained among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the next day, having sat down on the judgment-seat, commanded Paul to be brought.

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

⁷And when he was come, the Jews who were come down from Jerusalem stood round, bringing many and grievous charges which they were not able to prove:

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

⁸Paul answering for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I offended [in] anything.

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

⁹But Festus, desirous of obliging the Jews, to acquire their favour, answering Paul, said, Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be judged before me concerning these things?

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

¹⁰But Paul said, I am standing before the judgment-seat of Caesar, where I ought to be judged. To the Jews have I done no wrong, as *thou* also very well knowest.

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.

¹¹If then I have done any wrong and committed anything worthy of death, I do not deprecate dying; but if there is nothing of those things of which they accuse me, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.

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

¹²Then Festus, having conferred with the council, answered, Thou hast appealed to Caesar. To Caesar shalt thou go.

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

¹³And when certain days had elapsed, Agrippa the king and Bernice arrived at Caesarea to salute Festus.

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

¹⁴And when they had spent many days there, Festus laid before the king the matters relating to Paul, saying, There is a certain man left prisoner by Felix,

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

¹⁵concerning whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews laid informations, requiring judgment against him:

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

¹⁶to whom I answered, It is not [the] custom of the Romans to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and he have got opportunity of defence touching the charge.

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

¹⁷When therefore they had come together here, without putting it off, I sat the next day on the judgment-seat and commanded the man to be brought:

¹⁸Zvino vapomeri vakamusimukira, asi havana kumupomera mhosva sezvandaifungira;

¹⁸concerning whom the accusers, standing up, brought no such accusation of guilt as *I* supposed;

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

¹⁹but had against him certain questions of their own system of worship, and concerning a certain Jesus who is dead, whom Paul affirmed to be living.

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

²⁰And as I myself was at a loss as to an inquiry into these things, I said, Was he willing to go 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 for the cognisance of Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I shall send him to Caesar.

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

²²And Agrippa [said] to Festus, I myself also would desire to hear the man. To-morrow, said he, 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, Agrippa being come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and having entered into the hall of audience, with the chiliarchs and the men of distinction of the city, and Festus having given command, Paul was brought.

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 here present with us, ye see this person, concerning whom all the multitude of the Jews applied to me both in Jerusalem and here, crying out against [him] that 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.

²⁵But I, having found that he had done nothing worthy of death, and this [man] himself having appealed to Augustus, I have 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 nothing certain to write to my lord. Wherefore I have brought him before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, so that an examination having been gone into I may have something to write:

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

²⁷for it seems to me senseless, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.