Acts 25:1-7 ▼

1 Three days after Festus had arrived in the province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

2 The high priests and Jewish leaders informed him of their charges against Paul, urging

3 and asking Festus to have Paul brought to Jerusalem as a favor. They were laying an ambush to kill him on the road.

4 Festus replied that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself would be going there soon.

5 |Therefore,| he said, |have your authorities come down with me and present their charges against him there, if there is anything wrong with the man.|

6 Festus stayed with them no more than eight or ten days and then went down to Caesarea. The next day, he sat on the judge's seat and ordered Paul brought in.

7 When Paul arrived, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and began bringing a number of serious charges against him that they couldn't prove.