Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Lysias » Chief captain of roman troops in jerusalem
and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away,
And having heard these things, Felix delayed them -- having known more exactly of the things concerning the way -- saying, 'When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;'
Way » Figurative » Doctrines taught by Christ
did ask from him letters to Damascus, unto the synagogues, that if he may find any being of the way, both men and women, he may bring them bound to Jerusalem.
'And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written,
And having heard these things, Felix delayed them -- having known more exactly of the things concerning the way -- saying, 'When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;'
And there came, at that time, not a little stir about the way,
'And this way I persecuted unto death, binding and delivering up to prisons both men and women,