5. Let some of your leaders come with me, and if the man has done anything wrong, they can press charges against him there."
6. After spending eight or ten days with them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he convened the court and ordered that Paul be brought before him.
7. When Paul came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him. They brought many serious charges against him, but they could not prove them.
8. Then Paul made his defense: "I have done nothing wrong against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar."
9. Festus, wishing to do the Jews a favor, said to Paul, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and stand trial before me there on these charges?"