Acts:25:1-12

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* Festus therefore , being come into the eparchy , after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea . * And the chief priests and the chief of the Jews laid informations before him against Paul , and besought him , * asking as a grace against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem , laying people in wait to kill him on the way . * Festus therefore answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea , and that he himself was about to set out shortly . * Let therefore the persons of authority among you , says he , going down too , if there be anything in this man , accuse him . * And having remained among them not more than eight or ten days , he went down to Caesarea ; and on the next day , having sat down on the judgment-seat , commanded Paul to be brought . * And when he was come , the Jews who were come down from Jerusalem stood round , bringing many and grievous charges which they were not able to prove : * Paul answering for himself , Neither against the law of the Jews , nor against the temple , nor against Caesar , have I offended [in ] anything . * But Festus , desirous of obliging the Jews , to acquire their favour , answering Paul , said , Art thou willing to go up to Jerusalem , there to be judged before me concerning these things ? * But Paul said , I am standing before the judgment-seat of Caesar , where I ought to be judged . To the Jews have I done no wrong , as thou also very well knowest . * If then I have done any wrong and committed anything worthy of death , I do not deprecate dying ; but if there is nothing of those things of which they accuse me , no man can give me up to them . I appeal to Caesar . * Then Festus , having conferred with the council , answered , Thou hast appealed to Caesar . To Caesar shalt thou go .

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