Acts 25:2-13

Rotherham^{(i) 2} and the High–priest and chiefs of the Jews laid information before him against Paul, and began to beseech him ³ asking for themselves as a favour against him, that he would send for him unto Jerusalem,––making, an ambush, to kill him on the way. ⁴ Festus, therefore, answered, that Paul should be kept in Caesarea, and that, he himself, was about, shortly, to be going out [thither]. ⁵ They, therefore, among you (saith he) who are in power, let them go down with me; and, if there is in the man, anything amiss, let them accuse him. ⁶ And, spending among them, not more than eight or ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and, on the morrow, taking his place upon the judgment–seat, ordered Paul to be brought. ⁷ And, when he presented himself, the Jews who, from Jerusalem, had come down, stood round about him, many and grievous charges, bringing against [him], which they were not able to prove,–– ⁸ Paul saying in defence––Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar, have I in anything sinned. ⁹ But, Festus, wishing, with the Jews, to gain, favour, answered Paul, and said––Art thou willing, unto Jerusalem, to go up, and, there, concerning these things, be judged before me? ¹⁰ But Paul said––Standing before the judgment–seat of Caesar, am I, where, I, ought to be judged. Unto the Jews, have I done no wrong, as, even thou, right well, art discovering. ¹¹ If then, on the one hand, I am doing wrong, and, anything worthy of death, have committed, I excuse not myself from dying; but, on the other hand, if there is, nothing, in the things whereof these are accusing me, no man, hath power to give, me, unto them as a favour:––Unto Caesar, I appeal! ¹² Then Festus, having conversed with the council, answered––Unto Caesar, hast thou appealed? Unto Caesar, shalt thou go.
¹³ And, some days having gone by, Agrippa the king and Bernice came down to Caesarea, to salute Festus.