Acts 25:9

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But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

asking a favor against him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem; laying a plot to kill him on the way.

And when he saw that it pleased the Jews, he proceeded to seize Peter also. And those were the days of unleavened bread.

But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released unto them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

Now at the feast the governor was wont to release unto the multitude one prisoner, whom they would.

Now at the feast he used to release unto them one prisoner, whom they asked of him.