It is most probable that Festus had been informed by Felix of the Jews malice against Paul; for Felix having been accused by the Jews unto the emperor, might be supposed to have recriminated wheresoever he had any opportunity; and in all the time of his government they were not guilty of a worse fact than their design against Paul, it being sedition, and intended murder of one who had the privilege of a Roman citizen. He himself would depart shortly thither; the governors kept their courts wheresoever they came.
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Acts 25:4
4 But Festus answered, that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself would depart shortly thither.