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Festus, the Roman governor who sent Paul to Caesar. The King James Version names Portius Festus in 12 verses, from Acts 24:27 to Acts 26:32.
Portius Festus speaks in 17 verses of the King James Version, all in Acts.
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.Acts 25:5 ›
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The successor of Felix (A.D. 60) as procurator of Judea (Acts 24:27). A few weeks after he had entered on his office the case of Paul, then a prisoner at Caesarea, was reported to him. The “next day,” after he had gone down to Caesarea, he heard Paul defend himself in the presence of Herod Agrippa II. and his sister Bernice, and not finding in him anything worthy of death or of bonds, would have set him free had he not appealed unto Caesar (Acts 25:11, 12). In consequence of this appeal Paul was sent to Rome. Festus, after being in office less than two years, died in Judea.
From Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897).
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Festus, the Roman governor who sent Paul to Caesar. The King James Version names Portius Festus in 12 verses, from Acts 24:27 to Acts 26:32.
In 17 verses of the King James Version, all in Acts. His first words are in Acts 25:5.