⁴ Festus replied that Paul was being kept at Caesarea, and that he himself intended to go there shortly. ⁵ ‘So’, he said, ‘let those of you who have the authority come down with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, let them accuse him.’

⁶ After he had stayed among them for not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be brought.