1. Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
2. Then the high priest and the principal men of the Judeans informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
3. asking a favour against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.
4. However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.