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,
8 while he defended himself, saying, “Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned at all.”
9 Desiring to do the Jews a favor, Festus answered, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be judged concerning these charges before me?”