Caesarea

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

A seaport in Palestine

The home of

Philip

• 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.
• 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.

Cornelius, the centurion

• Acts 10:1 At Caesarea there was a man named Cornelius, a centurion in what was called the Italian Regiment.
• Acts 10:24 The following day he arrived in Caesarea, where Cornelius was expecting them and had called together his relatives and close friends.

Herod

• 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. Now Herod was in a furious dispute with the people of Tyre and Sidon, and they convened before him. Having secured the suppo…

Felix

• Acts 23:23–24 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. Provide mounts for Paul to take him safely to Governor Felix.”

Paul conveyed to, by the disciples to save him from his enemies

• Acts 9:30 When the brothers learned of this, they took him down to Caesarea and sent him off to Tarsus.

By Roman soldiers to be tried by Felix

• Acts 23:23–35 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. Provide mounts for Paul to take him safely to Governor Felix.” And he wrote the following letter: Claudius Lysias, To His Excell…