But Festus, willing to do the Jews a favor, answered Paul, and said, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?
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John Chrysostom
AD 407
I am not giving you up to them— but this was the fact— and he leaves the point to his own choice, that by this mark of respect he might get him to yield: since his was the sentence, and it would have been too barefaced, when he had been convicted of nothing here, to take him back there. But Paul said, At Cæsar's tribunal am I standing, etc.
