Acts 25:1
Three days after Festus entered his province, he went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
In Context
2The high priest and the Jewish leaders laid charges against Paul before him.
Cross References
Acts 8:40Philip found himself at Ashdod. Then visiting town after town, he kept preaching the good news in all the cities until he reached Caesarea.
Acts 21:15A few days after this we took up our luggage and went up to Jerusalem.
Acts 25:5"Let those then," he said, "who are in authority among you, go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the 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 →