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to do them the favor of having the man sent to Yerushalayim. (They had plotted to have him ambushed and killed en route.) Festus replied that Sha’ul was being kept under guard in Caesarea, and that he was about to go there shortly himself. “So,” he said, “let competent men among you come down with me and press charges against the man, if he has done something wrong.”

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They requested Festus, as a favor to them, to have Paul transferred to Jerusalem, for they were preparing an ambush to kill him along the way.(A) Festus answered, “Paul is being held(B) at Caesarea,(C) and I myself am going there soon. Let some of your leaders come with me, and if the man has done anything wrong, they can press charges against him there.”

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