EGYPTIAN, THE.?An unnamed leader of the ?Assassins? or ?Sicarii? for whom Claudius Lysias took St. Paul (Act_21:38). This man is also mentioned by Josephus as a leader defeated by Felix, but not as connected with the ?Assassins? (Ant. XX. viii. 6). The Egyptian escaped, and Lysias thought that he had secured him in St. Paul?s person. The discrepancies between Josephus and St. Luke here make mutual borrowing improbable. See Theudas.
A. J. Maclean.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
ē̇-jip?shan (ὁ Αἰγύπτιος, ho Aigúptios): Mentioned in Act_21:38, by Claudius Lysias as having ?before these days stirred up to sedition and led out into the wilderness the four thousand men of the ASSASSINS? (which see). Reference to this Egyptian and to the suppression of his rebellion by the procurator Felix is likewise found in Josephus (Ant., XX, viii, 6; BJ, II, xiii, 5).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.