Acts 25:9-11

International Standard Version

⁹ Then Festus, wanting to do the Jewish leaders^[a] a favor, asked Paul, “Are you willing to go up to Jerusalem to be tried there before me on these charges?”

¹⁰ But Paul said, “I am standing before the emperor’s judgment seat where I ought to be tried. I haven’t done anything wrong to the Jewish leaders,^[b] as you know very well. ¹¹ If I’m guilty and have done something that deserves death, I’m willing to die. But if there is nothing to their charges against me, no one can hand me over to them as a favor. I appeal to the emperor!”