Festus (Porcius)
Then Festus, when he had conferred with the council, answered,
Hast thou appealed unto Caesar? unto Caesar shalt thou go....
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But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and
Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound....
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Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man
myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him....
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fes'-tus, por'-shi-us Porkios Phestos): The Roman governor
or procurator who succeeded Felix in the province of Judea
(Acts 24:27), and was thus brought into prominence in the
dispute between Paul and the Sanhedrin which continued after
the retirement of Felix (Acts 25; 26). Upon the arrival of
Festus in Jerusalem, the official capital of...
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Also called PORCIUS FESTUS, the Roman governor of Judaea, and
successor to Governor Felix
Ac 24:27
-Tries Paul
Ac 25:26...
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(Festus means festival), successor of Felix as procurator of
Judea, Ac 24:27 sent by Nero probably in the autumn of A.D.
60. A few weeks after Festus reached his province he heard the
cause of St. Paul, who had been left a prisoner by Felix, in
the presence of Herod Agrippa II and Bernice his sister, Ac
25:11,12 Judea was in the same disturbed...
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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 findin...
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Sent by Nero to succeed Felix as procurator of Judaea,
probably in the autumn A.D. 60. To ingratiate himself with
the Jews he asked Paul would he go up to Jerusalem for
judgment there P But Paul, knowing there was little hope of
an impartial trial there, as a Roman citizen appealed to
Caesar (Acts 25-26). A few weeks afterward he gave Paul's
...
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