Acts 25:1

ἐπιβὰς : “having come into the province,” A. and R.V., or, “having entered upon his province,” R.V. margin. If we read τῇ ἐπαρχείῳ with Weiss and W.H [389] margin, the word is an adjective of two terminations, sc. ἐξουσίᾳ, i.e., having entered on his duties as governor of the province (see Weiss, Apostelgeschichte, p. 8), and cf. Acts 23:34. For the adjective in inscriptions see Blass, in loco. μετὰ τρεῖς ἡμ.: “sat cito,” Bengel. ἀνέβη : went up to Jerusalem officially as the capital; the visit had nothing necessarily to do with St. Paul, but the close-connecting τε may indicate that the action of the priests in again bringing up their case was to be expected.

[389] Westcott and Hort's The New Testament in Greek: Critical Text and Notes.