⁹ Then there arose a loud outcry. And the scribes of the Pharisees’ party arose and protested, saying, ^(A)“We find no evil in this man; ^[a]but ^(B)if a spirit or an angel has spoken to him, ^(C)let us not fight against God.”

²⁵ But when I found that ^(A)he had committed nothing deserving of death, ^(B)and that he himself had appealed to Augustus, I decided to send him.