1After1fivedays the highpriest2Ananiascamedown with someelders, with an attorney named Tertullus, and they broughtcharges to 3the governoragainstPaul.
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After Paul had been summoned, Tertullusbegan to accuse him, saying to the governor, "S ince we have through you attainedmuchpeace, and since by your providencereforms are beingcarried out for thisnation,
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we acknowledge this in everyway and everywhere, 4mostexcellentFelix, with allthankfulness.
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"But, that I may not weary you anyfurther*, I beg you to grant us, by your kindness, a briefhearing.
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"For we have foundthisman a real pest and a fellow who stirs up dissension among all the Jewsthroughout the world, and a ringleader of the 5sect of the Nazarenes.
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"And he eventried to 6desecrate the temple; and then we arrested him. [We wanted to judge him according to our own Law.
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"But Lysias the commandercamealong, and with muchviolencetook him out of our hands,