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Appeal to Caesar
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|Atos 25:1| Three days after Festus arrived in the province, he went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea. a
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|Atos 25:2| Then the chief priests and the leaders of the Jews presented their case against Paul to him; and they appealed, b
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|Atos 25:3| asking him to do them a favor against Paul, 1 that he might summon him to Jerusalem. They were preparing an ambush along the road to kill him.
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|Atos 25:4| However, Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to go there shortly. c
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|Atos 25:5| “Therefore,” he said, “let the men of authority among you go down with me and accuse him, if there is any wrong in this man.”
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|Atos 25:6| When he had spent not more than eight or 10 days among them, he went down to Caesarea. The next day, seated at the judge’s bench, he commanded Paul to be brought in. d
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|Atos 25:7| When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious charges that they were not able to prove, e
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|Atos 25:8| while Paul made the defense that, “Neither against the Jewish law, f nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned at all.”
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|Atos 25:9| Then Festus, wanting to do a favor for the Jews, g replied to Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem, there to be tried before me on these charges?”
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|Atos 25:10| But Paul said: “I am standing at Caesar’s tribunal, where I ought to be tried. I have done no wrong to the Jews, as even you can see very well.
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