1. Festus then, having arrived in the province, three days later went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
2. And the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul, and they were urging him,
3. requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).
4. Festus then answered that Paul was being kept in custody at Caesarea and that he himself was about to leave shortly.
5. "Therefore," he said, "let the influential men among you go there with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them prosecute him."