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Acts - ch 24 v 21 - 27
- other than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching the resurrection of the dead.
- And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come down I will determine your affair;
- ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him.
- And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
- And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;
- hoping at the same time that money would be given him by Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener and communed with him.
- But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.
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