24And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
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Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
And when they had been there many days, Festus declared Paul's cause unto the king, saying, There is a certain man left in bonds by Felix:
Who, when they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.
And when they had bound him, they led him away, and delivered him to Pontius Pilate the governor.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-35)We have here the story of a plot against the life of Paul; how it was laid, how it was discovered, and how it was defeated. I. How this plot was laid. They found they could gain nothing by popular tumult, or legal process, and therefore have a recourse to the barbarous method of assassination; they will come upon him suddenly, and stab him, if they can but get him within their reach. So restless i…
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