Acts 25:20,21

And because I doubted of such manner of questions Whether they were dangerous to the state and punishable, and whether I was a competent judge of them; I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem I proposed that the cause should be adjourned to the Jewish courts, as best able to take cognizance of an affair of this nature. But when Paul appealed to Augustus Being apprehensive, as I plainly perceived, of some clandestine attempt upon his life; I commanded him to be kept Under confinement as before; till I might send him to Cesar By some convenient opportunity.