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Who was tetrarch of Abilene at this time?
Luke: Lysanias ([iii, 1]).
Lysanias was put to death at the instigation of Cleopatra sixty years before Jesus began his ministry. “She [Cleopatra] hurried Antony on perpetually to deprive others of their dominions, and give them to her; and as she went over Syria with him, she contrived to get it into her possession; so he slew Lysanias” (Josephus, Antiq., B. xv, ch. iv, sec. 1).
At the time mentioned by Luke the territory of Abila, or Abilene, was no longer a tetrarchy.