3. desired favour--in Ac 25:15, "judgment."
      against him--It would seem that they had the insolence to ask him to have the prisoner executed even without a trial (Ac 25:16).
      laying wait . . . to kill him--How deep must have been their hostility, when two years after the defeat of their former attempt, they thirst as keenly as ever for his blood! Their plea for having the case tried at Jerusalem, where the alleged offense took place, was plausible enough; but from Ac 25:10 it would seem that Festus had been made acquainted with their causeless malice, and that in some way which Paul was privy to.

JFB.