Acts 25:24 Festus said, "King Agrippa, and all men who are here present with us, you see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews petitioned me, both at Jerusalem and here, crying that he ought not to live any longer. (WEB RSV NIV)
Ezra 8:23 So we fasted and begged our God for this: and he was entreated of us. (See NIV)