Hechos 24:22

22 Entonces Félix, conociendo con mayor exactitud acerca del Camino, pospuso el fallo, diciendo: Cuando venga el comandante Lisias decidiré vuestro caso.

Hechos 24:22 Meaning and Commentary

Acts 24:22

And when Felix heard these things
Which were said on both sides, both by plaintiff and defendant, the charges brought against Paul, and his answer to them, as a judge ought to do:

having more perfect knowledge of that way;
the Christian religion, which the Jews called heresy, and Paul had embraced; the sense is, either that he had a more perfect knowledge of it than he had before; and by what Paul had said, he saw that it was not contrary to the law, nor had any tendency to promote sedition and tumult; or rather, when he should have more perfect knowledge of this new way, called the sect of the Nazarenes, he would determine this cause, and not before: wherefore

he deferred
them; put them off to longer time, and would make no decision in favour of one side or the other:

and said, when Lysias the chief captain shall come
from Jerusalem to Caesarea,

I will know the uttermost of your matters:
as for the way, or religion of the Christians, he proposed doubtless to consult other persons; and as for the profanation of the temple, and especially about stirring up of sedition, he would inquire of Lysias about that; and when he had got full information of these particulars, then he promised them to bring things to an issue, and finish the cause.

Hechos 24:22 In-Context

20 O si no, que éstos mismos digan qué delito encontraron cuando comparecí ante el concilio,

21 a no ser por esta sola declaración que hice en alta voz mientras estaba entre ellos: "Por la resurrección de los muertos soy juzgado hoy ante vosotros."

22 Entonces Félix, conociendo con mayor exactitud acerca del Camino, pospuso el fallo, diciendo: Cuando venga el comandante Lisias decidiré vuestro caso.

23 Y dio órdenes al centurión de que guardara a Pablo bajo custodia, pero con alguna medida de libertad, y que no impidiera a ninguno de sus amigos que lo sirvieran.

24 Pero pocos días más tarde, llegó Félix con Drusila su mujer, que era judía, y mandó traer a Pablo y lo oyó hablar acerca de la fe en Cristo Jesús.