Acts 25:9

But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure - to ingratiate himself with the Jews,

Answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me? If this was meant in earnest, it was temporizing and vacillating. But, possibly, anticipating Saul's refusal, he wished merely to avoid the odium of refusing to remove the trial to Jerusalem.