Acts Chapter 23 verse 24 Holy Bible
and `he bade them' provide beasts, that they might set Paul thereon, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
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And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler.
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And [he ordered them] to provide beasts, that they might set Paul on them and carry [him] safe through to Felix the governor,
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And provide them beasts, that they may set Paul on, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.
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He asked them to provide animals, that they might set Paul on one, and bring him safely to Felix the governor.
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beasts also provide, that, having set Paul on, they may bring him safe unto Felix the governor;'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - He bade them provide for provide, A.V, (the infinitive παραστῆσαι); might for may, A.V.; thereon for on, A.V. Beasts (κτήνη); here "riding-horses," as Luke 10:34. In Revelation 18:13 it is applied to "cattle;" in 1 Corinthians 15:39 it means "beasts" generally. In the LXX. it is used for all kinds of beasts - cattle, sheep, beasts of burden, etc. Beasts is in the plural, because one or more would be required for those who guarded Paul.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Felix the governor.--The career of the procurator so named is not without interest as an illustration of the manner in which the Roman empire was at this time governed. In the household of Antonia, the mother of the Emperor Claudius, there were two brothers, first slaves, then freed-men, Antonius Felix and Pallas. The latter became the chosen companion and favourite minister of the emperor, and through his influence Felix obtained the procuratorship of Judaea. There, in the terse epigrammatic language of Tacitus, he governed as one who thought, in his reliance on his brother's power, that he could commit any crime with impunity, and wielded "the power of a tyrant in the temper of a slave" (Tacit. Ann. xii. 54; Hist. v. 9). His career was infamous alike for lust and cruelty. Another historian, Suetonius (Claud. c. 28), describes him as the husband of three queens, whom he had married in succession:--(1) Drusilla, the daughter of Juba, King of Mauritania and Selene, the daughter of Autonius and Cleopatra. (2) Drusilla, the daughter of Agrippa I. and sister of Agrippa II. (See Acts 23:24.) She had left her first husband, Azizus, King of Emesa, to marry Felix (Jos. Ant. xx. 7. ? 1). Their son, also an Agrippa, died in an eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 (Jos. Ant. xx. 7, ? 2). The name of the third princess is unknown.
