Verse 27
Acts 24:27
Geneva Bible
27
When two yeeres were expired, Porcius Festus came into Felix roume: and Felix willing to get fauour of the Iewes, left Paul bound.
Original Language Text
greek
Διετίας δὲ πληρωθείσης ἔλαβεν διάδοχον ὁ Φῆλιξ Πόρκιον Φῆστον· θέλων τε ⸀χάριτα καταθέσθαι τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις ὁ Φῆλιξ κατέλιπε τὸν Παῦλον δεδεμένον.
English Translation
But after two years had passed, Felix appointed Porcius Festus as his successor; and wanting to show kindness to the Jews, Felix left Paul imprisoned.
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Chapter 24 Context
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Now after fiue dayes, Ananias the hie Priest came downe with the Elders, and with Tertullus a certai...
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And when he was called foorth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that we haue obtained g...
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We acknowledge it wholy, and in all places most noble Felix, with all thankes,
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But that I be not tedious vnto thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldest heare vs of thy courtesie a few...
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Certainely we haue found this man a pestilent fellowe, and a moouer of sedition among all the Iewes...
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And hath gone about to pollute the Temple: therefore wee tooke him, and woulde haue iudged him accor...
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But the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and with great violence tooke him out of our handes,
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Commanding his accusers to come to thee: of whom thou mayest (if thou wilt inquire) know all these t...
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And the Iewes likewise affirmed, saying that it was so.
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Then Paul, after that the gouernour had beckened vnto him that hee shoulde speake, answered, I do th...
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Seeing that thou mayest knowe, that there are but twelue dayes since I came vp to worship in Hierusa...
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And they neither found mee in the Temple disputing with any man, neither making vproare among the pe...
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Neither can they proue the things, whereof they now accuse me.
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But this I confesse vnto thee, that after the way (which they call heresie) so worship I the God (El...
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And haue hope towardes God (Elohim), that the resurrection of the dead, which they themselues looke...
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And herein I endeuour my selfe to haue alway a cleare conscience towarde God (Elohim), and toward me...
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Now after many yeres, I came and brought almes to my nation and offerings.
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At what time, certaine Iewes of Asia founde mee purified in the Temple, neither with multitude, nor...
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Who ought to haue bene present before thee, and accuse me, if they had ought against me.
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Or let these themselues say, if they haue found any vniust thing in mee, while I stoode in the Counc...
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Except it be for this one voyce, that I cried standing among them, Of the resurrection of the dead a...
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Nowe when Felix heard these things, he deferred them, and said, When I shall more perfectly know the...
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Then hee commanded a Centurion to keepe Paul, and that he should haue ease, and that he should forbi...
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24
And after certaine dayes, came Felix with his wife Drusilla, which was a Iewesse, and he called foor...
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And as he disputed of righteousnes and temperance, and of the iudgement to come, Felix trembled, and...
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Hee hoped also that money shoulde haue bene giuen him of Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he...
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When two yeeres were expired, Porcius Festus came into Felix roume: and Felix willing to get fauour...