If then I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything for which I deserve to die, I do not seek to escape death. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”

But I found that he had done nothing deserving death. And as he himself appealed to the emperor, I decided to go ahead and send him.

And when they had withdrawn, they said to one another, “This man is doing nothing to deserve death or imprisonment.”

Paul in Rome

After three days he called together the local leaders of the Jews, and when they had gathered, he said to them, “Brothers, though I had done nothing against our people or the customs of our fathers, yet I was delivered as a prisoner from Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.