Acts 25:1-3 ▼

1 Now Festus arrived in the province, and three days later he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea [Maritima].

2 And [there in Jerusalem] the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul [before Festus], and they repeatedly pleaded with him,

3 asking as a concession against Paul, that he would have him brought to Jerusalem; (meanwhile planning an ambush to kill him on the way).