Acts 24 — DBY
24Verse 1And after five days came down the high priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator called Tertullus, and laid their informations against Paul before the governor.Verse 2And he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse, saying, Seeing we enjoy great peace through thee, and that excellent measures are executed for this nation by thy forethought,Verse 3we receive [it] always and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.Verse 4But that I may not too much intrude on thy time, I beseech thee to hear us briefly in thy kindness.Verse 5For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazaraeans;Verse 6who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had seized, [and would have judged according to our law;Verse 7but Lysias, the chiliarch, coming up, took [him] away with great force out of our hands,Verse 8having commanded his accusers to come to thee;] of whom thou canst thyself, in examining [him], know the certainty of all these things of which we accuse him.Verse 9And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against [Paul], saying that these things were so.Verse 10But Paul, the governor having beckoned to him to speak, answered, Knowing that for many years thou hast been judge to this nation, I answer readily as to the things which concern myself.Verse 11As thou mayest know that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem,Verse 12and neither in the temple did they find me discoursing to any one, or making any tumultuous gathering together of the crowd, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city;Verse 13neither can they make good the things of which they now accuse me.Verse 14But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call sect, so I serve my fathers'°God, believing all things which are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;Verse 15having hope towards°God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust.Verse 16For this cause I also exercise [myself] to have in everything a conscience without offence towards°God and men.Verse 17And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings.Verse 18Whereupon they found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia,Verse 19who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have anything against me;Verse 20or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me when I stood before the council,Verse 21[other] than concerning this one voice which I cried standing amongst them: I am judged this day by you touching [the] resurrection of [the] dead.Verse 22And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come down I will determine your affair;Verse 23ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him.Verse 24And after certain days, Felix having arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.Verse 25And as he reasoned concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix, being filled with fear, answered, Go for the present, and when I get an opportunity I will send for thee;Verse 26hoping at the same time that money would be given him by Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener and communed with him.Verse 27But when two years were completed, Felix was relieved by Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desirous to oblige the Jews, to acquire their favour, left Paul bound.