Acts 25:1

Festus, who was now the governor of the province, arrived in Caesarea, and three days later he went up to Jerusalem.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2In Jerusalem, the chief priests and other Jewish leaders formally told Festus about the things that they said that Paul had done that were wrong.

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Cross References

Acts 8:40Philip then realized that the Spirit had miraculously taken him to Azotus town. While he traveled around in that region, he continued proclaiming the message about Jesus in all the towns between Azotus and Caesarea. And he was still proclaiming it when he finally arrived in Caesarea city.

Acts 21:15After those days in Caesarea, we (exc) prepared our things and left to go by land up to Jerusalem.

Acts 25:5Choose some of your leaders to go there with me. While they are there, they can accuse Paul of the wrong things that you say that he has done.”

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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