1Festus therefore assumed the province and after three days went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.2The chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul to him and pleaded with him.3They asked for a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, while they made a plot to kill him on the road.4Festus on the other hand answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea and that he himself would go out there in haste.5He said, 'Therefore let those among you who are able go down with me; if there is any wrong in the man, let them accuse him.'6After remaining among them no more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; the next day he sat on the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought.7When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious accusations which they were not able to prove.8While Paul was defending himself, he said that he had not sinned against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar.9Festus, wishing to grant a favor to the Jews, answered Paul and said, 'Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me concerning these things?'10Paul said, 'I stand before the judgment seat of Caesar, where I must be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also know very well.'11If therefore I have done wrong and am worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if there is nothing of which these men accuse me, no one can grant me to them. I appeal to Caesar.12Then Festus, after conferring with the council, answered, 'You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you will go.'