Acts 25:1
Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
King James Version
In Context
2Then the high priest and the chief of the Jews informed him against Paul, and besought him,
Cross References
Acts 8:40But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
Acts 21:15And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
Acts 25:5Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
Matthew Henry on Acts 25:1
Some think that Felix was turned out, and Festus succeeded him, quickly after Paul's imprisonment, and that the two years mentioned in the close of the foregoing chapter are to be reckoned from the beginning of Nero's reign; but it seems more natural to compute them from Paul's being delivered into the hands of Felix. However, we have here much the same management of Paul's case as we had in the foregoing chapter; cognizance is here taken of it, I. By Festus the governor; it is brought before him by the Jews, ver.… Read the whole commentary →