<p>25:10 <i>But Paul said: I am standing before Caesar's judgment seat, where I should be judged. To the Jews have I done no wrong, as you also very well know</i>- Paul's appeal to Caesar seems to have been quite unnecessary, and again it seems to have been the outcome of bitter exasperation and almost pride:&nbsp; &quot;I ought to be judged&quot;, as a Roman citizen...&quot;no man may deliver me...&quot;, &quot;as thou very well knowest&quot;; the response of Festus seems to be appropriate to Paul's arrogance: &quot;Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? Unto Caesar thou shalt go&quot; (25:10-12). The word used to describe Paul's &quot;appeal&quot; is that usually translated &quot;to call on (the name of the Lord)&quot;, perhaps suggesting that this was whom Paul should have called in, not Caesar. I have elsewhere suggested that Paul was obsessed with getting to Rome and making a witness there. He had also been told by the Lord that he would one day witness there, as was his desire. Having been two years in prison, it must have seemed an impossibility to ever get there, especially with increasing age and health issues. His appeal to Caesar was therefore calculated and not made in hot blood. And yet it was a path to further imprisonment and eventual death; when he could have been set free, as Festus comments later. But his entire journey to Jerusalem had been against the Lord's advice; and the train of events which transpired from it was not so much judgment / punishment as consequence of action.</p>