mnt - Acts:25:1-12

mnt@Acts:25:1 @ Three days after Festus entered his province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

mnt@Acts:25:2 @ The high priest and the Jewish leaders laid charges against Paul before him.

mnt@Acts:25:3 @ They urged him, asking it as a favor, to send for him to Jerusalem. They meant to lay in wait for him and kill him on the way.

mnt@Acts:25:4 @ But Festus answered that Paul was in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was going there soon.

mnt@Acts:25:5 @ "Let those then," he said, "who are in authority among you, go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, let them accuse him."

mnt@Acts:25:6 @ After staying not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and the next day, after taking his seat upon the tribunal, he ordered Paul to be brought.

mnt@Acts:25:7 @ When he came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought a number of serious charges against him, which they could not prove.

mnt@Acts:25:8 @ Paul said in his defense, "I have committed no crime against the Law of the Jews, against the Temple, or against Caesar."

mnt@Acts:25:9 @ But Festus, wishing to ingratiate himself with the Jews, answered Paul and said, "Will you go up to Jerusalem and be tried there by me upon these charges?"

mnt@Acts:25:10 @ "I am standing before Caesars tribunal," answered Paul, "where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know.

mnt@Acts:25:11 @ "If I am a criminal and have done anything for which I ought to die, I do not object to die. But if none of their charges is true, no man can give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar."

mnt@Acts:25:12 @ Then Festus, after conferring with the council, answered. "You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go."