Acts 24:22 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Acts 24:22

20 Or else let those who are here themselves say¹ if they found any wrongdoing in me while I stood before the council,

21 unless it is for this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, ^a‘Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you this day.’ ”

Felix Procrastinates

22 But when Felix heard these things, having more accurate knowledge of the ^aWay, he adjourned the proceedings and said, “When ^bLysias the commander comes down, I will make a decision on your case.”

23 So he commanded the centurion to keep Paul and to let him have liberty, and ^atold him not to forbid any of his friends to provide for or visit him.

24 And after some days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the ^afaith in Christ.

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having more perfect knowledge of that—"the"

way—(See on Acts 19:23; and Acts 24:14).

When Lysias . . . shall come . . . I will how, etc.—Felix might have dismissed the case as a tissue of unsupported charges. But if from his interest in the matter he really wished to have the presence of Lysias and others involved, a brief delay was not unworthy of him as a judge. Certainly, so far as recorded, neither Lysias nor any other parties appeared again in the case. Acts 24:23, however, seems to show that at that time his prepossessions in favor of Paul were strong.

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