²³ This is the letter they took with them:

²⁵ But Paul replied, “I am not insane, Most Excellent Festus. What I am saying is the sober truth.

³ For all of this, Your Excellency, we are very grateful to you.

³ Having carefully investigated everything from the beginning, I also have decided to write an accurate account for you, most honorable Theophilus,

¹⁴ For I hope to see you soon, and then we will talk face to face.

Greetings from James

1 This letter is from James, a slave of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.

I am writing to the “twelve tribes”—Jewish believers scattered abroad.

Greetings!