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Acts 23:26 KJV
Acts · chapter 23 · verse 26
Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.Acts 23:26 · King James Version
Acts 23:26 in context
24And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
25And he wrote a letter after this manner:
26Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.
27This man was taken of the Jews, and should have been killed of them: then came I with an army, and rescued him, having understood that he was a Roman.
28And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- excellentkratistosmightiest, strongest, noblest, most illustrious, best, most excellent, used in addressing…G2903 →
- ClaudiusklaudiosClaudius = " lame" , C. Caesar the name of the fourth Roman emperor, who came to…G2804 →
- governorhēgemōna leader of any kind, a guide, ruler, prefect, president, chief, general, commander…G2232 →
- LysiaslysiasLysias = " releaser" , a tribune or chiliarch of the Roman cohortG3079 →
- FelixphēlixFelix = " happy" , a Roman procurator of Judea appointed by the emperor Claudius…G5344 →
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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;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 12-35