Paul’s removal to Caesarea began a two-year imprisonment in that city. During these years he stated his case (and therefore the case for the gospel) before two governors and a king, thus further fulfilling the ministry to which he had been called (9:15). These were days of high drama as well as of tedious confinement, but through it all Paul maintained his unswerving purpose to serve Christ and the gospel.

24:1 The first of the two governors to hear Paul’s case was Antonius Felix, the brother of Pallas, the freedman and favorite of the emperor Claudius. It was through the influence of Pallas that Felix had been appointed to Judea. Josephus and Tacitus disagree as to the time and circumstances of his arrival in the province. Tacitus supposes that he was procurator of Samaria and Judea whi…