Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Acts 24:8
Commanding his accusers to come unto thee—Here they insinuate that, instead of troubling Felix with the case, he ought to have left it to be dealt with by the Jewish tribunal; in which case his life would soon have been taken.
by examining whom—Lysias, as would seem (Acts 24:22).
thyself mayest, etc.—referring all, as if with confidence, to Felix.
Acts 24:5-8
a pestilent fellow—a plague, or pest.
and a mover of sedition among all the Jews—by exciting disturbances among them.
throughout the world—(See on Luke 2:1). This was the first charge; and true only in the sense explained on Acts 16:20.
a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes—the second charge; and true enough.
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