Acts 23:24 Cross References - Thomson

²⁴ and provide beasts that they may mount Paul and conduct him safe to Felix the general.

¹² I arose by night, I and a few men with me, but I did not tell a man what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; and there was not a beast with me but that on which I rode;

¹² on a certain day, the thirteenth of the twelfth month Adar, throughout the whole kingdom of

² So, having bound him, they led him away and delivered him up to Pontius Pilate the governor.

¹ Now in the fifteenth year of the government of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea; and Herod, tetrarch of Galilee; and his brother Philip, tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis; and Lysanias, being tetrarch of Abilene

³⁴ and went up to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring thereon oil and wine. Then having set him on his own beast, he brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

²⁶ Claudius Lysias to his excellency general Felix, health and happiness.

³³ These on their arrival at Caesarea delivered the letter to the general and presented Paul to him.

¹⁰ In answer to this, when the general beckoned to him to speak, Paul replied. Knowing that thou hast been for many years a judge to this nation, I enter upon my defence with the more cheerfulness,

²² When Felix heard these things he put them off, saying, Having gained a more accurate knowledge of the things respecting this way when Lysias the commander comes down, I will inquire fully into your business. ²³ And he gave orders to the centurion that Paul be kept in custody, not closely confined; and that none of his friends be hindered from assisting him or coming to him. ²⁴ And after some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. ²⁵ And while Paul was discoursing concerning justice and temperance, and the judgment to come, Felix, being terrified, said, Go thy way for the present, and when I find a convenient time I will send for thee: ²⁶ hoping withal that money would be given him by Paul that he might discharge him, and for this cause he sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him. ²⁷ After two years however Felix was succeeded by Portius Festus, and being desirous to ingratiate himself with the Jews, Felix left Paul bound.

¹⁴ and as they spent many days there Festus stated Paul's case to the king, saying, There is a man who was left a prisoner by Felix,