1 Now three days after Festus had come into the province, he went from Caesarea up to Jerusalem.
2 The high priest and the elders of the Jews spoke to him against Paul. And they begged him,
3 asking as a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him along the way.
4 Festus said that Paul should be kept at Caesarea and that he himself intended to go there shortly.
5 He also said, “Let the men in authority go down with me. If there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”
6 Having stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea. And the next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered that Paul be brought in.
7 When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious charges against him which they could not prove,