⁶ After spending eight or ten days with them, Festus went down to Caesarea. The next day he convened the court^(A) and ordered that Paul be brought before him.^{(B) 7} When Paul came in, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him. They brought many serious charges against him,^(C) but they could not prove them.^(D)

⁸ Then Paul made his defense: “I have done nothing wrong against the Jewish law or against the temple^(E) or against Caesar.”