“"Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council" - do you observe how he seeks to gratify them? for this is favor - "having conferred," it says, "with the council, he said, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shall thou go." See how his trial is again lengthened out, and how the plot against him becomes a…”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on Acts 51
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13And after certain days king Agrippa and Bernice came unto Caesarea to salute Festus.
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11For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, I refuse not to die: but if there be none of these things whereof these accuse me, no man may deliver me unto them. I appeal unto Caesar.
12Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered, Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go.
— Acts 25:13 —
14And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul’s cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
15About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.