9 But Festus, wanting to show greater favor to the Jews, responded to Paul by saying: 'Are you willing to ascend to Jerusalem and to be judged there about these things before me?'
10 But Paul said: 'I stand in Caesar's tribunal, which is where I ought to be judged. I have done no harm to the Jews, as you well know.
11 For if I have harmed them, or if I have done anything deserving of death, I do not object to dying. But if there is nothing to these things about which they accuse me, no one is able to deliver me to them. I appeal to Caesar.'
12 Then Festus, having spoken with the council, responded: 'You have appealed to Caesar, to Caesar you shall go.'
13 And when some days had passed, king Agrippa and Bernice descended to Caesarea, to greet Festus.
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