Acts 25:1-8

1Three days after arriving in the province, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem,

2where the chief priests and the Jewish leaders appeared before him and presented the charges against Paul.

3They requested Festus, as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.

4Festus answered, “Paul is being held at Caesarea, and I myself am going there soon.

5Let some of your leaders come with me, and if the man has done anything wrong, they can press charges against him there.”

6After spending eight or ten days with them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he convened the court and ordered that Paul be brought before him.

7When Paul came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him. They brought many serious charges against him, but they could not prove them.

8Then Paul made his defense: “I have done nothing wrong against the Jewish law or against the temple or against Caesar.”