Expert: Brian Thompson - 9/15/2011

Question
HI BRIAN

I WAS NEVER IN THE MILITARY SO I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY ARE IN
A SQUAD ?

IN ACTS 11:4 " . . . HE PUT HIM I PRISON, AND DELIVERED HIM TO
FOUR SQUADS OF SOLDIERS "

BRIAN HOW MANY MEN IS THE BIBLE TALKING ABOUT HERE ?

THANK YOU BRIAN
GOD BLESS YOU
RAY M.

Answer
Hello Ray

Your reference is a little vague there

4But Peter began speaking and proceeded to explain to them in orderly sequence, saying, 5“I was in the city of Joppa praying; and in a trance I saw a vision, an object coming down like a great sheet lowered by four corners from the sky; and it came right down to me, 6and when I had fixed my gaze on it and was observing it I saw the four-footed animals of the earth and the wild beasts and the crawling creatures and the birds of the air. 7“I also heard a voice saying to me, ‘Get up, Peter; kill and eat.’

However a squad in the Roman army was either 8 or 10 men