Lysanias in Luke
The Luke 3:1 records that a Lysanias was tetrarch of Abilene in the time of John the Baptist.
According to Josephus the emperor Claudius in AD 42 confirmed Agrippa I in the possession of Abila of Lysanias already bestowed upon him by Caligula, elsewhere described as Abila, which had formed the tetrarchy of Lysanias. The statement appears in the Wars:
- "He added to it the kingdom of Lysanias, and that province of Abilene"
and also in Antiquities (Ant. xix.5, 1).
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