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But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.
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For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:
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Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,
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And from whom you will be able, by questioning him yourself, to get knowledge of all the things which we say against him.
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And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so.
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Then when the ruler had given him a sign to make his answer, Paul said, Because I have knowledge that you have been a judge over this nation for a number of years, I am glad to make my answer:
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Seeing that you are able to make certain of the fact that it is not more than twelve days from the time when I came up to Jerusalem for worship;
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And they have not seen me in argument with any man in the Temple, or working up the feelings of the people, in the Synagogues or in the town:
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And they are not able to give facts in support of the things which they say against me now.
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But this I will say openly to you, that I do give worship to the God of our fathers after that Way, which to them is not the true religion: but I have belief in all the things which are in the law and in the books of the prophets: