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

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Acts 25 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.