# Acts 26:24

> At this stage of Paul’s defense, Festus exclaimed in a loud voice, “You are insane, Paul! Your great learning is driving you to madness!”

— Acts 26:24, Berean Standard Bible

## When

- c. AD 57-59 (counted from the text)
- Date source: Acts 24:27 gives two years in Caesarea and marks the change from Felix to Festus, which Josephus (Antiquities XX.8) puts in AD 59.

## Who ruled

- **Herod Agrippa II**, king of Judea, AD 50-93, named in the text · Source: Josephus, Jewish War II; Antiquities XX
- **Porcius Festus**, procurator of Judea, AD 59-62, named in the text · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XX.8-9
- **Nero**, emperor of Rome, AD 54-68 · Source: Tacitus, Annals XIII-XVI; Suetonius, Nero
- **Antonius Felix**, procurator of Judea, AD 52-59 · Source: Josephus, Antiquities XX.7-8; Tacitus, Annals XII.54

## See also

- 1 Corinthians 2:13-14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-corinthians/2/13
- 1 Corinthians 1:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-corinthians/1/23
- 1 Corinthians 4:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/1-corinthians/4/10
- 2 Corinthians 5:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-corinthians/5/13
- Mark 3:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/mark/3/21
- 2 Kings 9:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/2-kings/9/11
- Jeremiah 29:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/jeremiah/29/26
- Hosea 9:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/hosea/9/7

Cross-references: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0.

## This document

- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/26/24
- Whole chapter: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/acts/26
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