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ACTS Chapter 24 -- PAUL BEFORE FELIX PAUL BEFORE FELIX -- Acts 24:1-23 Five days later, the high priest Ananias came down [from Jerusalem to Caesarea] with some elders and a certain forensic advocate Tertullus [acting as spokesman and counsel]. They presented to the governor their evidence against Paul. -- 24:1 And when he was called, Tertullus began the complaint [against him] by saying: Since through you we obtain and enjoy much peace, and since by your foresight and provision wonderful reforms (amendments and improvements) are introduced and effected on behalf of this nation. -- 24:2 In every way and in every place, most excellent Felix, we accept and acknowledge this with deep appreciation and with all gratitude. -- 24:3 But not to hinder or detain you too long, I beg you in your clemency and courtesy and kindness to grant us a brief and concise hearing. -- 24:4 For we have found this man a perfect pest (a real plague), an agitator and source of disturbance to all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the [heretical, division-producing] sect of the Nazarenes. -- 24:5 He also [even] tried to desecrate and defile the temple, but we laid hands on him and would have sentenced him by our Law. -- 24:6 (Sect of the Nazarenes, 5, refers to Christians as followers of Jesus of Nazareth, but the term does not occur elsewhere in early Christian literature. -- New Ungers Bible Handbook)
Posted on: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 09:58:03 +0000

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