⁵ He said, “Let your authorities come down with me, and if this man has done something improper, they can bring a charge against him.”

⁶ After staying with them for eight to ten days, Festus went down to Caesarea. On the next day, he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered Paul to be summoned. ⁷ When he appeared, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and they leveled many serious charges against him that they were unable to prove.