{When he had read it} (anagnous). Second aorist active
participle of anagin(9373)k(935c), to know again, to read. {Of what
province he was} (ek poias eparcheias estin). Tense of estin
(is) retained in indirect question. Poias is strictly "of what
kind of" province, whether senatorial or imperial. Cilicia, like
Judea, was under the control of the propraetor of Syria (imperial
province). Paul's arrest was in Jerusalem and so under the
jurisdiction of Felix unless it was a matter of insurrection when
he could appeal to the propraetor of Syria.