Acts 25:1-7 ▼

1 Then Festus having entered upon his office, after three days went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem;

2 and both the chief priests and the first men of the Jews appeared before him against Paul, and continued to entreat him,

3 asking favor against him, in order that he might send him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on the road.

4 Then indeed Festus responded, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and himself was about to go away quickly:

5 Then, says he, Let the influential ones among you, coming down, accuse him, if there is anything wrong in the man.

6 And having tarried with them not more than eight or ten days, having come down to Caesarea, on the following day, sitting on the tribunal, he commanded that Paul should be brought forth.

7 And he being present, the Jews having come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him charges many and heavy, which they were not able to prove.