Acts 25:2-6

And the chief priests and the leading men of the Jews brought charges against Paul, and they were pleading with Festus,

requesting a concession against Paul, that he might have him brought to Jerusalem (at the same time, setting an ambush to kill him on the way).

Festus then answered that Paul was being kept in custody in Caesarea, and that he himself was about to leave shortly.

“Therefore,” he *said, “have the influential men among you go there with me, and if there is anything wrong about the man, have them bring charges against him.”

After Festus had spent no more than eight or ten days among them, he went down to Caesarea, and on the next day he took his seat on the tribunal and ordered that Paul be brought.