Riverside(i)
1 FESTUS entered the province and after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
2 There the high priests and the leaders of the Jews spoke to him against Paul
3 and begged as a favor that he would send for him to Jerusalem, intending to have an ambush and kill him on the road.
4 But Festus answered that Paul was being kept in Caesarea and that he himself was going back very soon.
5 "Let those of you who can," he said, "go down with me, and, if there is anything wrong about the man, let them bring their charges against him."
6 After spending not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea and on the next day took his seat on the judge's bench and ordered Paul to be brought in.
7 When he had come in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious charges, which they were unable to prove,
8 while Paul claimed in his own defense, "Neither against the Jewish Law nor against the Temple courts nor against Caesar, have I committed any wrong."
9 Festus, wishing to gain favor with the Jews, asked Paul, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and there be tried for this before me?"
10 Paul said, "I am standing before Caesar's bar, where I ought to be tried. I have not harmed any Jews in anything, as you very well know.