Note 1 at Acts 25:10: Approximately two years before this, the Lord appeared to Paul and told him that he would testify of Him at Rome (Acts 23:11). Paul could have brought this word to pass by appealing to Caesar any time during those two years and would have been guaranteed an all expense paid trip to Rome. His hesitancy to do this must have been because he preferred to travel to Rome as a free man rather than a prisoner. Yet, when he perceived another plot by the Jews to kill him, he felt "constrained" to make his appeal unto Caesar (Acts 28:19).