1. Now three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
2. So the chief priests and the most prominent men of the Jews brought formal charges against Paul to him.
3. Requesting him to do them a favor against Paul, they urged Festus to summon him to Jerusalem, planning an ambush to kill him along the way.
4. Then Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea, and he himself intended to go there shortly.