"Some days later Felix arrived with Drusilla" The word arrived suggests that after his trial Felix and his wife had been away for. time and now had returned. "Drusilla, his wife who was. Jewess" Drusilla was the youngest daughter of Herod Agrippa I, and at this time (57-58 A.D.) she was around twenty years old. As. small girl she had been betrothed to the crown prince of Commagene, in eastern Asia Minor, but the marriage did not take place, because the prospective bridegroom refused to embrace Judaism. Then her brother Agrippa II gave her in marriage to the king of Emesa,. petty state in Syria. But when she was still only sixteen, Felix, with the help of. magician, persuaded her to leave her husband and marry him. She was the third wife that Felix had, and bore him. son named Agrippa, who died in the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Therefore, Drusilla was the youngest daughter of the Herod who had been struck by God in Acts 12:1. her brother is the King Agrippa that will be mentioned in the next Chapter s (Acts 25:13; Acts 26:30), and she and Felix are living in open adultery.

Acts 24:24 "And sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus" We not are told if Felix is sincere or whether he simply wants more information about this movement.

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