Hechos 25:9

9 Entonces Festo, queriendo complacer a los judíos, le preguntó:
—¿Estás dispuesto a ir a Jerusalén y ser juzgado ante mí allá?

Hechos 25:9 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 25:9

But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure
As did his predecessor Felix, ( Acts 24:27 ) he being just entered upon his new government, and having met with some caresses and civilities from the Jews at Jerusalem, by whom he had been much pressed and urged about the affair of the apostle:

answered Paul, and said, wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be
judged of these things before me?
meaning by the Jewish sanhedrim, he Festus being present: this was what the Jews had requested of him when he was at Jerusalem, that he would send for Paul thither, and there let him be judged, and which request he had denied; but having been solicited and importuned by the Jews, perhaps as, they came down together, he was inclined to gratify them, and to admit of it that he should be tried at Jerusalem, before the sanhedrim, he being present; and yet he was unwilling to do this without the prisoner's consent, he being a freeman of a Roman city; fearing he should be charged with delivering up a Roman into the hands of the Jews, which might be resented by the emperor and the Roman senate, should it come to their knowledge.

Hechos 25:9 In-Context

7 Cuando Pablo llegó, los líderes judíos de Jerusalén lo rodearon e hicieron muchas acusaciones graves que no podían probar.

8 Pablo negó los cargos. «No soy culpable de ningún delito contra las leyes judías, ni contra el templo, ni contra el gobierno romano», dijo.

9 Entonces Festo, queriendo complacer a los judíos, le preguntó:
—¿Estás dispuesto a ir a Jerusalén y ser juzgado ante mí allá?

10 Pero Pablo contestó:
—¡No! Esta es la corte oficial romana, por lo tanto, debo ser juzgado aquí mismo. Usted sabe muy bien que no soy culpable de hacer daño a los judíos.

11 Si he hecho algo digno de muerte, no me niego a morir; pero si soy inocente, nadie tiene el derecho de entregarme a estos hombres para que me maten. ¡Apelo al César!