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Acts 24 📜 📕 ↷
Tertullus Prosecutes Paul
1 AND after five days the high priest Ananias descended, with certain ancients and one Tertullus an orator, who went to the President against Paul.📜💬📚
2 And Paul being cited, Tertullus began to accuse, saying: Whereas we live in much peace by thee, & many things are corrected by thy providence,📜💬📚
3 we do always & in all places receive it, most excellent Felix, with all thanks-giving.📜💬📚
4 But lest I hinder thee any longer, I desire thee of thy clemency briefly to hear us.📜💬📚
5 We have found this man pestiferous, & raising seditions to all the Jews in the whole world, and author of the sedition of the sect of the Nazarenes.📜💬📚
6 Who also hath attempted to violate the temple, whom also being apprehended we would have judged according to our law.📜💬📚
7 But Lysias the Tribune coming in, with great force took him away out of our hands,📜💬📚
8 commanding his accusers to come to thee, of whom thou mayest thyself judging, understand of all these things, whereof we accuse him.📜💬📚
9 And the Jews also added, saying that these things were so.📜💬📚
Paul's Defense to Felix
10 But Paul answered: (the President making a sign unto him for to speak) Knowing that of many years thou art judge over this nation, I will with good courage answer for my self.📜💬📚
11 For thou mayest understand that it is not above twelve days to me, since I went up to adore in Jerusalem.📜💬📚
12 And neither in the temple did they find me disputing with any man, or causing concourse of the multitude, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:📜💬📚
13 neither can they prove unto thee the things whereof they now accuse me.📜💬📚
14 But this I confess to thee, that according to the sect, which they call heresy, I do so serve the Father my God, believing all things that are written in the Law & the Prophets:📜💬📚
15 having hope in God, the which these also themselves expect, that there shall be a resurrection of just and unjust.📜💬📚
16 In this my self also do study to have a conscience without offense toward God and toward men always.📜💬📚
17 And after many years I came to bestow alms upon my nation, & oblations, and vows.📜💬📚
18 In the which they found me purified in the temple: not with multitude nor with tumult.📜💬📚
19 But certain Jews of Asia, who ought to be present before thee and to accuse, if they had any thing against me:📜💬📚
20 or let these men themselves say, if they have found in me any iniquity, forasmuch as I stand in the Council,📜💬📚
21 but of this one voice only that I cried standing among them, That of the resurrection of the dead am I judged this day of you.📜💬📚
Verdict Postponed
22 And Felix deferred them, knowing most certainly of this way, saying: When Lysias the Tribune is come down, I will hear you.📜💬📚
23 And he commanded the Centurion to keep him, and that he should have rest, neither to prohibit any of his to minister unto him.📜💬📚
24 And after some days, Felix coming with Drusilla his wife, which was a Jew, called Paul, and heard of him the faith that is in Christ JESUS.📜💬📚
25 And he disputing of justice and chastity, and of the judgement to come, Felix being terrified, answered: For this time, go thy way: but in time convenient I will send for thee.📜💬📚
26 hoping also withal, that money would be given him of Paul; for the which cause also oftentimes sending for him, he spake with him.📜💬📚
27 But when two years were ended, Felix had a Successor Portius Festus. And Felix being willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul in prison.📜💬📚
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