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Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,
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and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews made manifest to him [the things] against Paul, and were calling on him,
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asking favour against him, that he may send for him to Jerusalem, making an ambush to put him to death in the way.
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Then, indeed, Festus answered that Paul is kept in Caesarea, and himself is about speedily to go on thither,
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`Therefore those able among you -- saith he -- having come down together, if there be anything in this man -- let them accuse him;'
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and having tarried among them more than ten days, having gone down to Caesarea, on the morrow having sat upon the tribunal, he commanded Paul to be brought;
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and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem -- many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,
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he making defence -- `Neither in regard to the law of the Jews, nor in regard to the temple, nor in regard to Caesar -- did I commit any sin.'
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And Festus willing to lay on the Jews a favour, answering Paul, said, `Art thou willing, to Jerusalem having gone up, there concerning these things to be judged before me?'
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and Paul said, `At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;