Caesarea

How Nave’s arranged it

• A seaport in Palestine
• The home of
• PhilipActs 8:40Acts 21:8
• Cornelius, the centurionActs 10:1Acts 10:24
• HerodActs 12:19–23
• FelixActs 23:23Acts 23:24
• Paul conveyed to, by the disciples to save him from his enemiesActs 9:30
• By Roman soldiers to be tried by FelixActs 23:23–35

The passages, in Bible order (8)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Acts 8:40

   But Philip appeared at Azotus and traveled through that region, preaching the gospel in all the towns until he came to Caesarea.

   ›Commentary on Acts 8:402 voices

   “He preached to all the cities until he came to Caesarea. He says of Palestine, where it is described below that he had a house, which is shown to this day, as well as the room of his four prophesying virgin daughters.

   “But Philip was found at Azotus,....

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2. Acts 9:30

   When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

   ›Commentary on Acts 9:302 voices

   "Brethren, having learned of this, sent him off to Caesarea." Frightened by what had happened to Stephen, they send him to Caesarea, and then also to Tarsus, so that he might both teach there and be safe, as in his own homeland, because the Jews …

   “Which when the brethren knew,.... When the members of the church heard of it, by some means or another: they brought him down to Caesarea; not that which was before called Strato's tower, the same as in Act 8:40 but Caesarea Philippi, mentioned in Mat 16:13 the Syriac version adds, "by night", and some copies, "and sent him forth to Tarsus"; a city of Cilicia, his own native place, where he might be more safe, and also useful among his friends and acquaintance; Gal 1:21.

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3. Acts 10:1

   At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.

   ›Commentary on Acts 10:11 voice

   “From the words of Peter, therefore, which he addressed in Caesarea to Cornelius the centurion, and those Gentiles with him, to whom the word of God was first preached, we can understand what the apostles used to preach, the nature of their preaching, and their idea with regard to God. For this Cornelius was, it is said, "a devout man, and one who feared God with all his house, giving much alms to the people, and praying to God always.

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4. Acts 10:24

   The following day he arrived in Caesarea, where Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

   ›Commentary on Acts 10:242 voices

   “And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea,....

   “This was a glorious man and he had his dwelling in a glorious city. "Having called together his relatives." This is the mark of a truly pious friend: Cornelius, being surrounded by so many blessings, makes everyone partakers and close friends. They are called close …

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5. Acts 12:19–23

   After Herod had searched for him unsuccessfully, he examined the guards and ordered that they be executed. Then he went down from Judea to Caesarea and spent some time there.

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   “Descending from Judea into Caesarea. Although it seems according to the situation of the places to refer to Caesarea Philippi, which like Tyre and Sidon is a city of Phoenicia, Josephus nevertheless teaches that this was done in Caesarea of Palestine, which was once called …

   “And when Herod had sought for him and found him not,....

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6. Acts 21:8

   Leaving the next day, we went on to Caesarea and stayed at the home of Philip the evangelist, who was one of the Seven.

   ›Commentary on Acts 21:82 voices

   “The deacon Philip had daughters. But notice that his daughters were virgins and prophetesses, and that they attained through piety above all else to the point that they were even deemed worthy of the gift of prophecy. The writer would not have added that they …

   “And the next day we that were of Paul's company departed,....

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7. Acts 23:23

   Then he called two of his centurions and said, “Prepare two hundred soldiers, seventy horsemen, and two hundred spearmen to go to Caesarea in the third hour of the night.

   ›Commentary on Acts 23:231 voice

   "And on the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice were come with great pomp." On the next day, when Agrippa and Bernice had entered the city's hall of audience together with Festus and a numerous crowd, at Festus' commandment, Paul was brought into the middle, …

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8. Acts 23:24

   Provide mounts for Paul to take him safely to Governor Felix.”

   ›Commentary on Acts 23:242 voices

   “And provide them beasts,....

   “Provide them beasts - One for Paul, and some others for his immediate keepers. Felix the governor - This Felix was a freed man of the Emperor Claudius, and brother of Pallas, chief favourite of the emperor. Tacitus calls him Antonius Felix; and gives us to understand that he governed with all the authority of a king, and the baseness and insolence of a quondam slave. E libertis Antonius Felix per omnem saevitiam ac libidinem jus regium servili ingenio exercuit. Hist. v.

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