Three days later he called together the leaders of the Jews. When they had assembled, Paul said to them: 'My brothers, although I have done nothing against our people or against the customs of our ancestors, I was arrested in Jerusalem and handed over to the Romans.' - Three days after arrival, Paul calls Rome's Jewish leaders (archontes tōn Ioudaiōn, archontes tōn Ioudaiōn). His statement reasserts his innocence: 'I have done nothing against our people' (ouden ti...kata ton laon, ouden ti...kata ton laon) or 'against the customs of our ancestors' (kata ta ethē tōn paterōn, kata ta ethē tōn paterōn). His 'arrest in Jerusalem and handing over to the Romans' reiterates the events leading to Rome. Paul's opening is conciliatory, not adversarial: he addresses them as 'brothers' and frames his case as misunderstanding, not fundamental rupture.

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