He implores his 28K followers

In a message sent to his parents from his cell, he implored them to help him, and said that he was being beaten, but refused to confess because he was not a murderer.

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.

And Festus said, King Agrippa, and all men which are here present with us, ye see this man, about whom all the multitude of the Jews have dealt with me, both at Jerusalem, and also here, crying that he ought not to live any longer.

Robert Banks Jenkinson, Second Earl of Liverpool and First Lord of the Treasury for King George IV, begged Cornelius Buller, Governor of the Bank of England, to act to prevent financial asset prices from collapsing.

Keynes begged the policymakers of his time to ignore the austere and puritanical souls who argue for what they politely call a prolonged liquidation to put us right, and professed that he could not understand how universal bankruptcy can do any good or bring us nearer to prosperity.