1. Festus therefore, having come to the province, three days later went up from Caesarea to Yerushalayim.
2. And the high priest and the chief men of the Yehuḏim informed him against Sha’ul, and they begged him,
3. asking a favour against him, that he would send him to Yerushalayim – making a plot along the way to kill him.
4. Then, indeed, Festus answered that Sha’ul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to set out shortly.
5. “Therefore,” he said, “let those who have authority among you go down with me and accuse this man, to see if there is any fault in him.”