Note 1 at Ac 25:10: Approximately two years before this, the Lord appeared to Paul and told him he would testify of Him at Rome (Ac 23:11). Paul could have brought this word to pass by appealing to Caesar anytime 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 as a prisoner. Yet, when he perceived another plot by the Jews to kill him, he felt "constrained" to make his appeal to Caesar (Ac 28:19).