Verse 24
24. Drusilla Felix, the once Greek slave, was eminently successful in matrimonies, being called by Suetonius maritus reginarum trium, the husband of three queens, or kings’ daughters. The present Drusilla was great granddaughter of the first Herod, whose court was disturbed by the birth of Jesus, granddaughter of the Herod Antipas who beheaded John the Baptist, and who met Jesus before the crucifixion. With the hope of the Jews of a future Messiah, with the claims of Jesus to that title, and something of the rise of Christianity, she must have been acquainted.
When, therefore, she learned that Paul, the noted “ringleader” of the sect of “Nazarenes,” (as Tertullus called him,) was in the palace of Felix, she entertained much the same curiosity to see him that her grandfather Antipas did to see Jesus.
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