1. Now three days after Festus had come into the province, he went from Caesarea up to Jerusalem.
2. The high priest and the elders of the Jews spoke to him against Paul. And they begged him,
3. asking as a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him along the way.
4. Festus said that Paul should be kept at Caesarea and that he himself intended to go there shortly.
5. He also said, “Let the men in authority go down with me. If there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”
6. Having stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered that Paul be brought in.
7. When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious charges against him which they could not prove,