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**Verse 1**
*Descended;* to Cesarea.--*Orator,* advocate. Tertullus, judging from his name, was a Roman: and he was employed probably on account of his acquaintance with the language and forms of procedure used at the Roman tribunals.
[Acts 24:2](../../../kjv/acts/24/2),[Acts 24:3](../../../kjv/acts/24/3). Contemporaneous history represents Felix as base and tyrannical, though efficient in his government. The obsequiousness of this orator's introduction contrasts strongly with the honest dignity of that of Paul. ([Acts 24:10](../../../kjv/acts/24/10).)

**Verse 11**
*Twelve days.* In carefully reckoning the days enumerated in the course of the narrative, from the time of Paul's arrival at Jerusalem, we make more than twelve, unless we consider the five mentioned [Acts 24:1](../../../kjv/acts/24/1) as commencing, not at the time of Paul's arrival at Cesarea, but at that of his apprehension by Lysias.

**Verse 12**
This is in reply to the charge made by Tertullus. ([Acts 24:5](../../../kjv/acts/24/5).)

**Verse 17**
*After many years;* after an absence of many years.

**Verse 18**
*Purified;* engaged in the duties pertaining to ceremonial purification.

**Verse 19**
*Who ought,* &c.; meaning the Jews from Asia who made the original charge.

**Verse 22**
*Having more perfect knowledge of that way.* The connection of this expression with the other clauses of the verse is not apparent even in the original.

**Verse 23**
*To let him have liberty;* that is, not to keep him in close confinement.--*To minister--unto him;* to attend upon him, and administer to his comfort.

**Verse 24**
*Drusilla;* the daughter of Herod Agrippa. Felix had enticed her away from her husband, who was still living, as is related by the historians of those times.

**Verse 26**
*Communed with;* conversed with;--intimating to him, in these conversations, that he or his friends, by paying a sum of money, might secure his release.

**Verse 27**
*Into Felix's room;* as his successor in the government.

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