But Festus, wanting to please the Jews, answered Paul and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem and be judged there before me about these things?
And deciding to do the easiest to the crowd, Pilate released Barabbas to them, and having scourged Him, delivered up Jesus to be crucified.
And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he went further to seize Peter also. (And they were days of Unleavened Bread.)
But after two years Felix welcomed a successor, Porcius Festus. And wishing to show a favor to the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.
And because I was perplexed about this question, I asked whether he would go to Jerusalem and be judged there about these matters.
asking a favor against him that he would send for him to Jerusalem, making a plot to kill him on way.