Acts 24:3-13

3 We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.

4 Notwithstanding, that I be not * further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.

5 For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

6 Who also hath gone about to profane the temple * : whom we took , and would have judged according to our law.

7 But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,

8 Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.

9 And the Jews also assented , saying that these things were so.

10 Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak , answered , Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:

11 Because that thou mayest understand , that there are yet but * twelve days * since * I went up to Jerusalem for to worship .

12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up * the people *, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:

13 Neither can they prove * the things whereof they now accuse me.