Acts 25:1

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Festus therefore, having come into the province, after three days went up to Jerusalem from Caesarea.

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Paul's Missionary JourneysThe routes of the Apostle Paul's missionary journeys across the Mediterranean world.

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Caesarea was the Roman administrative capital of Judea, where Governor Festus arrived and Paul was held in custody. Jerusalem was the Jewish religious center, where Paul’s opponents sought to bring his case; Rome, though not named in Acts 25:1 itself, looms as the imperial court to which Paul would later appeal.

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Acts 25:1 mentions Caesarea, Jerusalem and Rome.

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