Acts 25:1-12 - Paul Appeals To Caesar

¹ Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem. ² Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and urged him, ³ And desired a favor from him, that he would send for him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him along the way. ⁴ But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart there shortly. ⁵ Let them therefore, said he, who among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.

⁶ And when he had tarried among them more than ten days, he went down unto Caesarea; and the next day sitting on the judgment seat commanded Paul to be brought. ⁷ And when he was come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood round about, and laid many serious complaints against Paul, which they could not prove. ⁸ While he answered for himself, Neither against the law of the Jews, neither against the temple, nor yet against Caesar, have I offended anything at all.

⁹ But Festus, willing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul, and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

¹⁰ Then said Paul, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged: to the Jews have I done no wrong, as you very well know. ¹¹ For if I be an offender, or have committed anything worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things of which these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.

¹² Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Have you appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shall you go.