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.
7. And when he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and serious charges that they were not able to prove,
8. while Paul said in his defense, “Neither against the law of the Jews nor against the temple nor against Caesar have I sinned with reference to anything!”
9. But Festus, because he wanted to do a favor for the Jews, answered and said to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried before me there concerning these things?”