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Paul Brought before Festus and the Jewish Charges

Acts 25:1-12

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Chapter 25
1 Therefore, having entered the province after three days, Festus went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem. 2 And the chief priests and the leading Jews appeared before him against Paul, and they begged him. 3 asking a favor against him, that he might send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to kill him along the way. 4 Festus therefore answered that Paul was to be kept in Caesarea, but he himself was about to set out quickly. 5 "Therefore," he says, "let those among you who have authority go down together. If there is anything out of place in the man, let them accuse him." 6 Having spent no more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea; and on the next day, having sat on the judgment seat, he ordered Paul to be brought. 7 But when he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing many and heavy charges which they were not able to prove. 8 while Paul defended himself that "Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned at all." 9 But Festus, wanting to grant the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, "Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me concerning these things?" 10 But Paul said, "I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I am to be judged. I have wronged the Jews in nothing, as you also very well know." 11 Therefore, if I am wronging anyone and have done something worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is nothing to the things they are accusing me of, no one can grant me to them. I appeal to Caesar. 12 Then Festus, having conferred with his council, answered, "You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go."