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Paul Aks Um fa Tek Um ta de Rula Caesar
Shree day atta Gobna Festus git ta e arie, e lef Caesarea an gone ta Jerusalem. De leada dem ob de Jew priest dem an de oda Jew leada dem gone fa meet Festus. Dey tell um bad ting ginst Paul. Dey beg Festus fa do um fabor. Dey wahn um fa bring Paul back ta Jerusalem, cause dey done been mek plan fa kill um long de road. Festus ansa um say, “Dey da gyaad Paul an keep um een Caesarea. An soon A gwine go back dey too. Ef Paul done sompin bad, leh oona leada dem come wid me ta Caesarea. Leh um cuse de man dey.”
Festus ain stay wid um een Jerusalem no mo den eight or ten day fo e gone back ta Caesarea. De nex day e gone an seddown een de court fa jedge, an e gii orda fa dem fa bring Paul fo um. Wen Paul git ta de court, de Jew leada dem dat been come fom Jerusalem gone an stanop roun um. Dey cuse Paul, say e done plenty bad ting, bot dey ain been able fa show nottin tall dat e done bad fa true. Den Paul hab a chance fa ansa um, fa show dat e ain done nottin bad. E say, “A ain done nottin dat de Jew Law say we ain oughta do. A ain done nottin bad een God House. An A ain done nottin dat de rula Caesar say we ain oughta do.”
Now den, Festus wahn fa mek de Jew people like um, so e aks Paul say, “Ya wahn dem fa tek ya ta Jerusalem an leh me go yeh ya case dey?”
10 Paul ansa um say, “A da stanop yah fo de Roman rula Caesar court, weh dey oughta jedge me. Ya know too well dat A ain done nottin bad ginst de Jew people. 11 Ef A done broke de law an A done sompin bad so dat A oughta dead, A ain gwine say oona mus dohn kill me. Bot ef wa dem people yah say ginst me ain true tall, nobody oughta han me oba ta um. A wahn ya fa tek me fa go fo Caesar.”
12 Atta Festus been taak wid dem wa wise um, e ansa Paul say, “So den, ya say ya wahn fa go fo Caesar. Fa sho, A gwine sen ya ta Caesar.”
Festus Taak wid King Agrippa bout Paul Case
13 Two shree day atta dat, King Agrippa an Bernice come ta Caesarea. Dey come fa see Festus an tell um dey heppy e been come dey. 14 Wen dey been dey some time, Festus tell King Agrippa bout Paul case. E say, “Dey one man yah dat Felix been lef as a prisona. 15 Wen A gone ta Jerusalem, de leada dem ob de priest dem an de oda Jew leada dem tell me dat man Paul done bad, an dey aks me fa jedge um. 16 Bot A tell um dat de Roman dem ain da do like dat. We ain jedge nobody fo we gim de chance fa meet wid dem dat cuse um an leh dem ansa bout wa dey say e done. 17 Wen dem dat cuse um come yah, A ain wait eben a leetle bit. De nex day, A gone an seddown een de court an chaage um fa bring Paul een. 18 Wen dem dat cuse um stanop fa taak, dey ain say nottin bad ginst um like how A beena tink dey gwine taak. 19 Dey jes beena spute wid um bout how de Jew dem oughta woshup dey God an bout one dead man name Jedus. Bot Paul say dat man da lib gin now. 20 A ain know how fa laan nuff bout dis, fa jedge de case. Cause ob dat, A aks Paul ef e wahn fa go ta Jerusalem fa leh um jedge um dey. 21 Bot Paul aks me fa keep um een de jailhouse an leh de rula Caesar jedge um. So A chaage um fa gyaad Paul til A able fa sen um ta Caesar.”
22 Agrippa tell Festus say, “A wahn fa yeh dis man mesef.”
Festus ansa um say, “Ya gwine yeh um demarra.”
23 De nex day, Agrippa an Bernice gone ta de place weh people da geda. An all de people done plenty ting fa show dey spec um, an dey gim haaty welcome. Agrippa dem gone eenside de place wid de offisa dem ob de sodja dem, an de leada dem een de city. Wen Festus chaage um fa bring Paul, dey bring um een. 24 Festus say, “King Agrippa an all people dey yah. Oona look pon dis man! All de Jew people een Jerusalem an dem yah een Caesarea da holla say e ain oughta lib no mo. 25 Bot A ain find nottin dat e done fa mek me jedge um fa dead. An e say e wahn fa go fo de rula, so A done cide fa sen um dey. 26 Bot A ain hab nottin dat A kin write ta Caesar bout dis man. A done bring um fo oona, an mos ob all A bring um ta ya, King Agrippa, so dat atta we quizzit um an find out bout e case, A kin hab sompin fa write ta Caesar. 27 Cause A tink dat e ain mek no sense fa sen a prisona ta Caesar ef A ain able fa tell um wa bad ting dat prisona done do.”