ACTS Chapter 24 -- PAUL BEFORE FELIX PAUL BEFORE FELIX -- Acts 24:1-23 (Contd.) Unless it be this one sentence which I cried out as I stood among them, In regard to the resurrection of the dead I am indicted and on trial before you this day! -- 24:21 But Felix, having a rather accurate understanding of the Way [of the Lord], put them off and adjourned the trial, saying, When Lysias the commandant comes down, I will determine your case more fully. -- 24:22 Then he ordered the centurion to keep [Paul] in custody, but to treat him with indulgence [giving him some liberty] and not to hinder his friends from ministering to his needs and serving him. -- 24:23 Some days later Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess; and he sent for Paul and listened to him [talk] about faith in Christ Jesus. -- 24:24 But as he continued to argue about uprightness, purity of life (the control of the passions), and the judgment to come, Felix became alarmed and terrified and said, Go away for the present; when I have a convenient opportunity, I will send for you. -- 24:25 At the same time he hoped to get money from Paul, for which reason he continued to send for him and was in his company and conversed with him often. -- 24:26 But when two years had gone by, Felix was succeeded in office by Porcius Festus; and wishing to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul still a prisoner in chains. -- 24:27 (Felixs wife Drusilla was sister of Herod Agrippa II and Bernice [25:13]. Felixs treatment of Pauls case shows he was cruel and had little moral principle. He deliberately sacrificed duty and justice for his own selfish ambition. Paul had to languish in prison for two years on his account, 27. -- New Ungers Bible Handbook)
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