Acts 24

Paul Appears before Felix

1. Five days later Ananias, the high priest, arrived with some of the Jewish elders and the lawyer[a] Tertullus, to present their case against Paul to the governor.

2. When Paul was called in, Tertullus presented the charges against Paul in the following address to the governor: 2 “You have provided a long period of peace for us Jews and with foresight have enacted reforms for us.

3. For all of this, Your Excellency, we are very grateful to you.

4. But I don’t want to bore you, so please give me your attention for only a moment.

5. We have found this man to be a troublemaker who is constantly stirring up riots among the Jews all over the world. He is a ringleader of the cult known as the Nazarenes.

6. Furthermore, he was trying to desecrate the Temple when we arrested him.[b]


Footnotes:
a. 24:1: Greek some elders and an orator.
b. 24:6: Some manuscripts add an expanded conclusion to verse 6, all of verse 7, and an additional phrase in verse 8: We would have judged him by our law, but Lysias, the commander of the garrison, came and violently took him away from us, commanding his accusers to come before you.
c. 24:20: Greek Sanhedrin.
d. 24:23: Greek a centurion.