World English Bible

Acts 25:3

“asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.”

Verse in context — Acts 25

Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

Then the high priest and the principal men of the Jews informed him against Paul, and they begged him,

asking a favor against him, that he would summon him to Jerusalem; plotting to kill him on the way.

However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

Let them therefore," said he, "that are in power among you go down with me, and if there is anything wrong in the man, let them accuse him.

The birth and growth of the early church through the power of the Holy Spirit.