However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.
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Acts 25:4 in context
Acts 25:1–7
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Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.
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Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,
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asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem, plotting to kill him on the way.
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However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.
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“Let them therefore”, he said, “that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.”
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When he had stayed among them more than ten days, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he sat on the judgment seat, and commanded Paul to be brought.
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When he had come, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him, bringing against him many and grievous charges which they could not prove,
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