Festus Assumes Office and Meets Jewish Leaders

Acts 25:1-5

Three days after Festus had entered the province, he went up from Caesarea to Yerushalayim.

There the head cohanim and the Judean leaders informed him of the case against Sha’ul, and they asked him

to do them the favor of having the man sent to Yerushalayim. (They had plotted to have him ambushed and killed en route.)

Festus replied that Sha’ul was being kept under guard in Caesarea, and that he was about to go there shortly himself.

“So,” he said, “let competent men among you come down with me and press charges against the man, if he has done something wrong.”