Acts 25:1-5

Expanded Bible

Paul Asks to See Caesar

25 Three days after Festus ·became governor [^Larrived in the province], he went [^Lup] from Caesarea to Jerusalem. ² There the ·leading [^Tchief] priests and the important leaders [^Lof the Jews] made charges against Paul before Festus. ³ They ·asked [urged] Festus to do them a favor. They wanted him to send Paul back to Jerusalem, because they ·had a plan [^Lplanned an ambush] to kill him on the way. ⁴ But Festus answered that Paul would be kept in Caesarea and that he himself was returning there soon. ⁵ He said, “[^LTherefore,] Some of your ·leaders [authorities] should go with me. They can accuse the man there in Caesarea, if he has really done something wrong.”