Acts 25:1-7 ▼

1 Festus, therefore, having come to the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea;

2 and the high priests and chief men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and were beseeching him,

3 asking it as a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush, to kill him on the way.

4 Festus, therefore, answered, that Paul was held at Caesarea, and that he himself was about shortly to go out thither .

5 "Let those, therefore, among you," said he, who are able, going down with me , accuse him, if there is anything amiss in him.

6 And, having spent among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and, on the morrow, sitting on the judgment-seat, he ordered Paul to be brought.

7 And, when he presented himself , the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around him , bringing many and grievous charges, which they were not able to prove;