The Acts

¹Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. ²And the chief priests and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul; and they besought him, ³asking favour against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying wait to kill him on the way. ⁴Howbeit Festus answered, that Paul was kept in charge at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart thither shortly. ⁵Let them therefore, saith he, which are of power among you, go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse him. ⁶And when he had tarried among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and on the morrow he sat on the judgment-seat, and commanded Paul to be brought. ⁷And when he was come, the Jews which had come down from Jerusalem stood round about him, bringing against him many and grievous charges, which they could not prove;