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Text -- Acts 23:22-35 (NET)
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23:22 Then the commanding officer sent the young man away , directing him, “Tell no one that you have reported these things to me .”
23:23 Then he summoned two of the centurions and said , “Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Caesarea along with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen by nine o’clock tonight ,
23:24 and provide mounts for Paul to ride so that he may be brought safely to Felix the governor .”
23:25 He wrote a letter that went like this :
23:26 Claudius Lysias to His Excellency Governor Felix , greetings .
23:27 This man was seized by the Jews and they were about to kill him , when I came up with the detachment and rescued him, because I had learned that he was a Roman citizen .
23:28 Since I wanted to know what charge they were accusing him of, I brought him down to their council .
23:29 I found he was accused with reference to controversial questions about their law , but no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment .
23:30 When I was informed there would be a plot against this man , I sent him to you at once , also ordering his accusers to state their charges against him before you .
23:31 So the soldiers , in accordance with their orders , took Paul and brought him to Antipatris during the night .
23:32 The next day they let the horsemen go on with him , and they returned to the barracks .
23:33 When the horsemen came to Caesarea and delivered the letter to the governor , they also presented Paul to him .
23:34 When the governor had read the letter, he asked what province he was from . When he learned that he was from Cilicia ,
23:35 he said , “I will give you a hearing when your accusers arrive too.” Then he ordered that Paul be kept under guard in Herod’s palace .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Claudius Lysias |
Caesarea |
Paul |
Change of Venue |
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 8-12 |
Minister |
ACTS OF THE APOSTLES, 13-OUTLINE |
Self-defense |
Prisoners |
PROVINCE |
Felix |
PAUL, THE APOSTLE, 5 |
EPISTLE |
Letters |
Lysias, Claudius |
TERTULLUS |
Armies |
ACCUSER |
Praetorium |
Soldiers |
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NET Notes -> Act 23:22; Act 23:22; Act 23:22; Act 23:23; Act 23:23; Act 23:23; Act 23:23; Act 23:23; Act 23:23; Act 23:23; Act 23:23; Act 23:23; Act 23:23; Act 23:24; Act 23:24; Act 23:24; Act 23:24; Act 23:25; Act 23:25; Act 23:26; Act 23:26; Act 23:27; Act 23:27; Act 23:27; Act 23:27; Act 23:27; Act 23:27; Act 23:27; Act 23:28; Act 23:28; Act 23:28; Act 23:29; Act 23:29; Act 23:29; Act 23:29; Act 23:29; Act 23:30; Act 23:30; Act 23:30; Act 23:31; Act 23:31; Act 23:31; Act 23:32; Act 23:32; Act 23:32; Act 23:33; Act 23:33; Act 23:33; Act 23:34; Act 23:34; Act 23:34; Act 23:34; Act 23:34; Act 23:34; Act 23:34; Act 23:35; Act 23:35; Act 23:35; Act 23:35
NET Notes: Act 23:22 On this verb, see BDAG 325-26 s.v. ἐμφανίζω 2. The term was frequently used of an official report to authorit...
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NET Notes: Act 23:24 Grk “Felix the procurator.” The official Roman title has been translated as “governor” (BDAG 433 s.v. ἡγεμ...
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NET Notes: Act 23:27 The letter written by the Roman commander Claudius Lysias was somewhat self-serving. He made it sound as if the rescue of a Roman citizen had been a c...
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NET Notes: Act 23:28 Grk “their Sanhedrin” (the Sanhedrin was the highest legal, legislative, and judicial body among the Jews).
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NET Notes: Act 23:29 Despite the official assessment that no charge against him deserved death or imprisonment, there was no effort to release Paul.
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NET Notes: Act 23:30 Grk “the things against him.” This could be rendered as “accusations,” “grievances,” or “charges,” but...
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NET Notes: Act 23:31 Antipatris was a city in Judea about 35 mi (55 km) northwest of Jerusalem (about halfway to Caesarea). It was mentioned several times by Josephus (Ant...
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NET Notes: Act 23:32 Or “the headquarters.” BDAG 775 s.v. παρεμβολή 2 has “barracks/headquarters of the Rom...
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