Acts 24

¹Now after fiue dayes, Ananias the hie Priest came downe with the Elders, and with Tertullus a certaine oratour, which appeared before the Gouernour against Paul.

²And when he was called foorth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that we haue obtained great quietnesse through thee, and that many worthy things are done vnto this nation through thy prouidence,

³We acknowledge it wholy, and in all places most noble Felix, with all thankes,

⁴But that I be not tedious vnto thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldest heare vs of thy courtesie a fewe wordes.

⁵Certainely we haue found this man a pestilent fellowe, and a moouer of sedition among all the Iewes throughout the world, and a chiefe maintainer of the secte of the Nazarites:

⁶And hath gone about to pollute the Temple: therefore wee tooke him, and woulde haue iudged him according to our Lawe:

⁷But the chiefe captaine Lysias came vpon vs, and with great violence tooke him out of our handes,

⁸Commanding his accusers to come to thee: of whom thou mayest (if thou wilt inquire) know all these things whereof we accuse him.

⁹And the Iewes likewise affirmed, saying that it was so.

¹⁰Then Paul, after that the gouernour had beckened vnto him that hee shoulde speake, answered, I do the more gladly answere for my selfe, for as much as I knowe that thou hast bene of many yeres a iudge vnto this nation,

¹¹Seeing that thou mayest knowe, that there are but twelue dayes since I came vp to worship in Hierusalem.