⁶ After Festus had spent no 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 tribunal and ordered that Paul be brought. ⁷ 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 not done anything wrong either against the Law of the Jews, or against the temple, or against Caesar.” ⁹ But Festus, ^(F)wanting to do the Jews a favor, replied to Paul and said, “^(G)Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem and ^[a]stand trial before me on these charges?” ¹⁰ But Paul said, “I am standing before Caesar’s ^(H)tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done nothing wrong to the Jews, as you also very well know. ¹¹ If, therefore, I am in the wrong and have committed something deserving death, I am not trying to avoid execution; but if there is nothing to the accusations which these men are bringing against me, no one can hand me over to them. I ^(I)appeal to Caesar.” ¹² Then when Festus had conferred with ^[b]his council, he answered, “You have appealed to Caesar; to Caesar you shall go.”