Acts 25:4

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However Festus answered that Paul should be kept in custody at Caesarea, and that he himself was about to depart shortly.

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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 provincial capital of Judea, where Governor Festus kept Paul in custody; Jerusalem was the Jewish religious center where Paul’s opponents sought to have him tried. Rome, though not named in the verse itself, mattered as the imperial seat to which Paul’s case would eventually be appealed.

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Acts 25:4 mentions Caesarea, Jerusalem and Rome.

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