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13 articles found for “Felix”

• Felix and Festus

  Felix and Festus were Roman governors of Judea who appear in Acts 23–26. While Paul was imprisoned at Caesarea, each in turn presided over his trial.

• Drusilla

  Drusilla was a Jewish woman mentioned in Acts 24 and the wife of the Roman governor Felix. With her husband, she heard Paul speak about faith in Christ Jesus while he was imprisoned at Caesarea.

• Acts 24

  Acts 24 is the chapter in which Paul stands trial before the governor Felix at Caesarea. The accusation brought by the high priest's party is followed by Paul's defense, and the chapter ends with Felix deferring judgment and keeping Paul in custody for two years.

• Dominic

  Dominic (c. 1170–1221) was a Catholic priest from Castile. He founded the Order of Preachers, known as the Dominican Order, which received papal approval in 1216. The Catholic Church venerates him as Saint Dominic.

• Tertullus

  Tertullus was the courtroom orator who, in Acts 24, accused Paul before the Roman governor Felix on behalf of the high priest Ananias and the elders.

• Ananias (High Priest)

  Ananias was a Jewish high priest who appears in Acts 23–24. He ordered those standing by to strike Paul on the mouth as Paul made his defense before the council, and he later brought charges against Paul before the governor Felix.

• Acts 23

  Acts 23 recounts how Paul makes his defense before the Jewish council (the Sanhedrin), escapes a plot by more than forty men to kill him, and is sent under Roman military escort to Felix, the governor at Caesarea.

• Claudius Lysias

  Claudius Lysias was a Roman military tribune (the "chief captain" of the KJV) who appears in the Book of Acts. He seized Paul while a mob was beating him at the Temple in Jerusalem, placed him under protective custody, and sent him under escort to the governor Felix.

• Julius

  Julius was a Roman army centurion mentioned in Acts 27. He was responsible for escorting Paul, then a prisoner, from Caesarea to Rome.

• Sect of the Nazarenes

  The "sect of the Nazarenes" is the expression the advocate Tertullus used in Acts 24 for the followers of Jesus when he brought charges against Paul. The Greek word behind it is closer in meaning to "sect" or "faction" than to "heresy" in the modern doctrinal sense.

• Acts 25

  Acts 25 is the chapter in which the new governor, Festus, tries Paul, who is imprisoned at Caesarea. It covers the events from Paul's appeal to Caesar (the Roman emperor) to Festus's presentation of Paul before King Agrippa.

• Cilicia

  Cilicia was a region on the Mediterranean coast of southeastern Asia Minor. Tarsus, the hometown of the apostle Paul, was located there, and the region is mentioned in Acts and Galatians.

• Self-Control

  Self-control is a biblical concept referring to the power to govern one's own desires and emotions. In Galatians 5:23 it is listed last among the fruit of the Spirit.