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The same name traced across the biblical canon and the Second Temple texts, side by side.
Lysias (Man living at the time of the New Testament)
Claudius Lysias, the Roman tribune over the garrison at the Antonia Fortress. He pulled Paul out of a mob in the temple and then sent him under armed guard to Felix in Caesarea with a letter about the case.
Claudius Lysias, the Roman tribune over the garrison at the Antonia Fortress. He pulled Paul out of a mob in the temple and then sent him under armed guard to Felix in Caesarea with a letter about the case.
Lysias, more fully Claudius Lysias, was the Roman tribune who commanded the garrison at the Antonia Fortress in Jerusalem. He rescued Paul from a mob in the temple, had him examined under guard, and later sent him under armed escort to the governor Felix in Caesarea with a letter explaining the case (Acts 21:31-33; 23:26-30). He is not the same person as the Hellenistic-era Syrian regent of the same name mentioned in the books of Maccabees, who lived roughly two centuries earlier.
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- Acts 23:26
- Acts 24:22
