Acts 25:1

Festus, therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea,

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Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.

In Context

2and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews disclosed to him [the things] against Paul, and were calling on him,

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Cross References

Acts 8:40and Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming good news to all the cities, until his coming to Caesarea.

Acts 21:15And after these days, having taken [our] vessels, we were going up to Jerusalem,

Acts 25:5“Therefore those able among you,” he says, “having come down together, if there be anything in this man—let them accuse 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 →

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