1. Now when Festus set foot in the province, after three days he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
2. And the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought charges against Paul to him, and were urging him,
3. asking for a favor against him, that he summon him to Jerusalem, because they were preparing an ambush to do away with him along the way.
4. Then Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea, and he himself was about to go there in a short time.
5. So he said, “Let those among you who are prominent go down with me, and if there is any wrong in the man, let them bring charges against him.”
6. And after he had stayed among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea. On the next day he sat down on the judgment seat and gave orders for Paul to be brought.