After ten days in Jerusalem, Festus returned to Caesarea, and some of the Jewish leaders went with him.  He sat in the judgment seat against Paul, with the Jews as Paul's accusers.  Had they been as determined to do God's will as they were to kill Paul and truly be His people then Christianity would have spread much faster.  They were too concerned with maintaining their status as a people who were above the Gentiles because of their relationship to God by birth than they were in establishing a real relationship with God.  We need to insure that what we do as Christians is based on a real relationship with God and not just on the fact that we call ourselves by His name.  Paul's accusers laid many and grievous complaints against him, which they could not prove.  Though all they could do was bring false charges against Paul, they didn't give up trying.  If we as Christians make claims against people, whether relating to Christianity or to everyday events, we have a responsibility to insure that the claims are correct.  In our age of social media, it is so easy for false claims to be made, and too often Christians repeat them as fact.  God expects us, as His people, to be truthful in all things.  When the actions of God's people, whether the Jews in Paul's day or the Christian in the world today, begin to propose or support lies in His name, then His plan for His people is cast aside for selfish purposes.  The Jewish leaders continued to bring charges against Paul in any court they could get a hearing and continued to plot to get him out where they could ambush and murder him.  I'm not sure what their plans were for those guarding him, but they would have most likely have had to kill them also.  All this was done in the name of God.  If we as God's people begin to work for our own purposes instead of following His will, we can be sure that more and more people will be effected.