Acts 24:22-27 - Paul Held Awaiting Trial
22 Then Felix adjourn'd them, saying, I shall inform myself more particularly of this sect, and when general Lysias comes, I will give you a full hearing. 23 Felix then order'd a centurion to take Paul into his custody, without confining him so as to hinder his friends from waiting upon him.
24 some time after he came to Cesarea with his wife Drusilla, a Jewess, when sending for Paul, he heard him discourse about the Christian faith. 25 but as he was treating of justice, temperance, and a future judgment, Felix greatly alarm'd, said, "withdraw for the present; and when I am at leisure, I will send for you." 26 this he frequently did, and convers'd with him upon the presumption that Paul would have
27 offer'd him mony in order to obtain his discharge. but two years after he was succeeded by Porcius Festus, who to oblige the Jews left Paul under confinement.