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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Acts 24:22 - 24:22
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having more perfect knowledge of that - “the”
way - (See on Act 19:23; and Act 24:14).
When Lysias ... shall come ... I will how, etc. - Felix might have dismissed the case as a tissue of unsupported charges. But if from his interest in the matter he really wished to have the presence of Lysias and others involved, a brief delay was not unworthy of him as a judge. Certainly, so far as recorded, neither Lysias nor any other parties appeared again in the case. Act 24:23, however, seems to show that at that time his prepossessions in favor of Paul were strong.