⁶ And after he had spent not more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to ^(A)Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on ^(B)the judgment seat and ordered Paul to be brought. ⁷ And after Paul arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing ^(C)many and serious charges against him ^(D)which they could not prove, ⁸ while Paul said in his own defense, “^(E)I have committed no sin either against the Law of the Jews or against the temple or against Caesar.” ⁹ But Festus, ^(F)wishing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul and said, “^(G)Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and to be tried before me on these matters?” ¹⁰ But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s ^(H)judgment seat, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know. ¹¹ If, then, I am a wrongdoer and have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die; but if none of those things is true of which these men accuse me, no one can hand me over to them. I ^(I)appeal to Caesar.” ¹² Then when Festus had conferred with ^[a]his council, he answered, “You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go.”