Acts 25:6

more than ten days The oldest texts read " not more than eight or ten days." This seems the more likely reading. It is more probable that the writer would use words to mark the shortness of the stay, than a form which would seem to describe ten days as a long residence at Jerusalem. Festus was evidently full of business and anxious to get it done.

and the next day Rev. Ver."on the morrow." The Jewish authorities must have accepted the governor's invitation, and have gone down along with him, so that the hearing could begin at once.