Acts 25:1-12 - Paul Appeals To Caesar

¹ Then entering the province, after three days Festus went from Caesarea to Jerusalem. ² And the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him ³ asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way. ⁴ Then indeed Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea; he himself would depart shortly. ⁵ Then he said, those having power among you may go down with me. If there is a thing amiss in this man, let them accuse him.

⁶ And staying among them more than ten days, going down to Caesarea, on the next day sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Paul to be brought. ⁷ And he having come, the Jews who came down from Jerusalem stood around and brought many charges against Paul, which they could not prove. ⁸ Defending himself, Paul said, Neither against the Law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I offended in anything.

⁹ But Festus, wanting to please the Jews, answered Paul and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me about these things?

¹⁰ But Paul said, I stand at Caesar's judgment seat, where I ought to be judged. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as you very well know. ¹¹ For if I am an offender or have committed anything worthy of death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is nothing of which these accuse me, no one can deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.

¹² Then conferring with the sanhedrin, Festus answered, You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go.