Acts 25:1-6

The Jews desired to kill Paul Acts 25:1-6: Nero, the Roman emperor, made Festus governor of Judea. Judea was a Roman province. Three days after Festus became governor, he traveled from Caesarea to Jerusalem. When he reached Jerusalem the Jews took advantage of a new opportunity to renew their charges against Paul. They thought Festus might help the Jews in order to gain their support.

The chief priests and some Jewish leaders told him about their charges against Paul. Paul was pictured as a wicked man that had committed all kinds of evil. The Jewish leaders asked a favor of Festus desiring that he would bring Paul back to Jerusalem. They were planning to attack and kill him on his way to Jerusalem. Men will go to terrible extremes to carry out bad causes! Festus told them, that Paul would be kept at Caesarea. He said he was going there soon and the Jewish leaders could come there and present their charges against him.

Festus stayed in Jerusalem for eight or ten more days before going back to Caesarea. The next day after he reached Caesarea he sat on the bench in the court to try the case against Paul. He commanded that Paul be brought from the place where he was kept a prisoner, to the judgment hall where he would be tried.