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Felix

Procurator of Judea, AD 52–59Governed about 7 years

Acts 23:24–24:27

Antonius Felix, a freed slave whose brother Pallas was powerful at Claudius's court. The historian Tacitus said he wielded a king's power with the mind of a slave. He heard Paul's case at Caesarea and kept him in prison two years, hoping for a bribe; his wife Drusilla was a daughter of Herod Agrippa I (Acts 24:24–27).

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Drusilla

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