Acts 24:2-8 ▼

2 When Paul had been summoned, Tertullus opened the prosecution by saying: |Your Excellency Felix, since we are enjoying lasting peace because of you, and since reforms for this nation are being brought about through your foresight,

3 we always and everywhere acknowledge it with profound gratitude.

4 But so as not to detain you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.

5 For we have found this man a perfect pest and an agitator among all Jews throughout the world. He is a ringleader in the sect of the Nazarenes

6 and even tried to profane the Temple, but we arrested him.

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8 By examining him for yourself, you will be able to find out from him everything of which we accuse him.|