Expositor's Bible Commentary Commentary Acts 25:1

"Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea." — Acts 25:1 (ASV)

For the Jewish population of Palestine, Porcius Festus was a welcome successor to Felix. Nothing is known of him before he assumed the governorship of Judea. Nor can the time of his nomination for the post or his arrival in Palestine be precisely fixed, though it was probably sometime in A. D. 60. He inherited all the troubles and tensions that were mounting during Felix’s maladministration, which culminated in the disaster of 66–70. His term of office was cut short by his death in 62. The situation in Palestine demanded immediate action to bring together opposing factions within the Jewish nation. Therefore on arriving in Palestine, Festus took only three days to settle in at Caesarea before going up to Jerusalem to meet with the leaders of the nation.