Acts 25:1-8

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

2The chief priests and the leaders of the Jews presented their case against Paul to him; and they appealed,

3asking for a favor against Paul, that Festus summon him to Jerusalem. They were, in fact, preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.

4Festus, however, answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to go there shortly.

5“Therefore,” he said, “let those of you who have authority go down with me and accuse him, if he has done anything wrong.”

6When he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea. The next day, seated at the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought in.

7When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious charges that they were not able to prove.

8Then Paul made his defense: “Neither against the Jewish law, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned in any way.”