1Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Caesarea to Jerusalem.
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And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;
And after those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.
Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.
And when he had landed at Caesarea, and gone up, and saluted the church, he went down to Antioch.
But Philip was found at Azotus: and passing through he preached in all the cities, till he came to Caesarea.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)We commonly say, “New lords, new laws, new customs;” but here was a new governor, and yet Paul had the same treatment from him that he had from the former, and no better. Festus, like Felix, is not so just to him as he should have been, for he does not release him; and yet not so unjust to him as the Jews would have had him to be, for he will not condemn him to die, nor expose him to their rage. H…
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