Acts 24:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶He hoped also that money should have been given him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him.

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Timothy 6:9-10
But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. …
Proverbs 17:23
A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.
Exodus 23:8
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
Proverbs 19:6
Many will intreat the favour of the prince: and every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.
Deuteronomy 16:19
Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a gift: for a gift doth blind the eyes of the wise, and pervert the words of the righteous.

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Bribery Civil Service Corruption Court Covetousness Felix

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 22-27)

We have here the result of Paul’s trial before Felix, and what was the consequence of it. I. Felix adjourned the cause, and took further time to consider of it (Acts 24:22): He had a more perfect knowledge of that way which the Jews called heresy than the high priest and the elders thought he had. He understood something of the Christian religion; for, living at Caesarea, where Cornelius, a Roman…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. He hoped ... that money should have been given him ... wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him--Bribery in a judge was punishable by the Roman law, but the spirit of a slave (to use the words of Tacitus) was in all his acts, and his communing with Paul”--as if he cared for either him or his message--simply added hypocrisy to meanness. The position in life of Paul’s Christi…