Acts 25:6

6 When he had spent not more than eight or 10 days among them, he went down to Caesarea. The next day, seated at the judge's bench, he commanded Paul to be brought in.

Acts 25:6 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 25:6

And when he had tarried among them more than ten days
The Alexandrian copy, and three of Beza's copies, and some others, and the Vulgate Latin version read, "no more than eight or ten days"; and the Syriac and Ethiopic versions leave out the phrase "no more", and read "when he had stayed there", as the former; that is, at Jerusalem; or "when he had remained among them", as the latter; the Jews, chief priests, and others, "eight or ten days"; the historian, not being certain to a day, expresses himself in this manner:

he went down to Caesarea;
from whence he came, and where Paul was:

and the next day sitting in the judgment seat;
the day after he was come to Caesarea, he sat upon the bench in the court of judicature, to try causes, and particularly the apostle's, which he was very desirous of knowing, for which reason he so soon took the bench: and

commanded Paul to be brought;
from the place where he was kept a prisoner, to the judgment hall where Festus was.

Acts 25:6 In-Context

4 However, Festus answered that Paul should be kept at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to go there shortly.

5 "Therefore," he said, "let the men of authority among you go down with me and accuse him, if there is any wrong in this man."

6 When he had spent not more than eight or 10 days among them, he went down to Caesarea. The next day, seated at the judge's bench, he commanded Paul to be brought in.

7 When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem stood around him and brought many serious charges that they were not able to prove,

8 while Paul made the defense that, "Neither against the Jewish law, nor against the temple, nor against Caesar have I sinned at all."