Acts 23:24 Cross References - Mace

²⁴ let them take care to see Paul mounted, and convoy him safe to governour Felix.

² and when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor of Judea.

¹ In the fifteenth year of the emperor Tiberius, when Pontius Pilate was governor of Judea; Herod tetrarch of Gallilee: Philip his brother tetrarch of Iturea and Trachonitis: and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene:

³⁴ went up to him, dress'd his wounds by applying oil and wine, then set him upon his own mule, and brought him to an inn, where he took care of him.

²⁶ CLAUDIUS LYSIAS to the most excellent governour FELIX wishes health.

³³ who upon their arrival at Cesarea, delivered the letter to the governour, and presented Paul to him.

¹⁰ Then the governour sign'd to Paul to reply; who said, I enter upon my defence with the greater confidence, by considering you have govern'd this nation several years:

²² Then Felix adjourn'd them, saying, I shall inform myself more particularly of this sect, and when general Lysias comes, I will give you a full hearing. ²³ Felix then order'd a centurion to take Paul into his custody, without confining him so as to hinder his friends from waiting upon him. ²⁴ some time after he came to Cesarea with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess, when sending for Paul, he heard him discourse about the Christian faith. ²⁵ but as he was treating of justice, temperance, and a future judgment, Felix greatly alarm'd, said, "withdraw for the present; and when I am at leisure, I will send for you." ²⁶ this he frequently did, and convers'd with him upon the presumption that Paul would have ²⁷ offer'd him mony in order to obtain his discharge. but two years after he was succeeded by Porcius Festus, who to oblige the Jews left Paul under confinement.

¹⁴ as they continued there for some time, Festus represented Paul's case to the king: Felix, said he, had left here a certain prisoner: