2. And the high priest and the chief men of the Yehuḏim informed him against Sha’ul, and they begged him,
3. asking a favour against him, that he would send him to Yerushalayim – making a plot along the way to kill him.
4. Then, indeed, Festus answered that Sha’ul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.
5. “Therefore,” he said, “let those who have authority among you go down with me and accuse this man, to see if there is any fault in him.”
6. And having spent more than ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea. And on the next day, sitting on the judgment seat, he commanded Sha’ul to be brought.
7. And when he had come, the Yehuḏim who had come down from Yerushalayim stood about, bringing many and heavy charges against Sha’ul, which they were unable to prove,
8. while Sha’ul said in his own defence, “Neither against the Torah of the Yehuḏim, nor against the Set-apart Place, nor against Caesar did I commit any sin.”
9. But Festus, wishing to do the Yehuḏim a favour, answering Sha’ul, said, “Do you wish to go up to Yerushalayim and be judged before me there concerning these matters?”
10. And Sha’ul said, “I am standing at Caesar’s judgment seat, where I should be judged. To the Yehuḏim I have done no wrong, as you know well enough.
11. “For if indeed I do wrong, or have committed whatever deserving death, I do not refuse to die. But if there is none at all in these matters of which these men accuse me, no one is able to give me up to them. I appeal to Caesar.”
12. Then Festus, having talked with the council, answered, “You have appealed to Caesar? To Caesar you shall go!”
13. And certain days having passed, Sovereign Agrippa and Bernike came to Caesarea to greet Festus.
14. And when they had spent many days there, Festus laid Sha’ul’s case before the sovereign, saying, “There is a man here whom Felix left as a prisoner,