Bible Verses About The Roman Empire: Accusers and accused confronted together

`I will hear thee--said he--when thine accusers also may have come;' he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

unto whom I answered, that it is not a custom of Romans to make a favour of any man to die, before that he who is accused may have the accusers face to face, and may receive place of defence in regard to the charge laid against him .

`They, therefore, having come together--I, making no delay, on the succeeding day having sat upon the tribunal, did command the man to be brought,

concerning whom the accusers, having stood up, were bringing against him no accusation of the things I was thinking of,

but certain questions concerning their own religion they had against him, and concerning a certain Jesus who was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive;