Acts 25:1
Festus, having entered on his duties as governor of the province, two days later went up from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
In Context
Cross References
Acts 8:40but Philip found himself at Ashdod. Then visiting town after town he everywhere made known the Good News until he reached Caesarea.
Acts 21:15A few days afterwards we loaded our baggage-cattle and continued our journey to Jerusalem.
Acts 25:5"Therefore let those of you," he said, "who can come, go down with me, and impeach the man, if there is anything amiss 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 →