Godbey - Acts - 24

24:1  And after five days Ananias the high priest with certain elders, and a certain orator Tertyllus, came down, who appeared before the governor against Paul.

24:2  And he having been called, Tertyllus began to accuse him, saying,

24:3  Receiving great peace through thee, and prosperity accruing to this nation through thy wisdom, we receive with all gratitude, both always, and everywhere, O most noble Felix.

24:4  But in order that I may not weary you excessively, I exhort you to hear us patiently according to your clemency.

24:5  For having found this man pestilential, and stirring up seditions to all the Jews who are throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

24:6  who also endeavored to pollute the temple: whom we indeed arrested,

24:8  with whom you yourself, having made inquiry, are able to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him.

24:9  And the Jews were consenting, saying, Truly these things are so.

24:10  And Paul responded, the governor beckoning to him to speak; Knowing you to be a judge to this nation from many years, I cheerfully apologize as to the things concerning myself:

24:11  you being able to know, that there are not more than twelve days to me since I came up to Jerusalem to worship.

24:12  Neither did they find me in the temple disputing with any one, or causing an excitement of the multitude, neither in the synagogues, nor throughout the city:

24:13  neither are they able to prove before you the things which they are now accusing me.

24:14  But I confess this to you, that according to the way which they call heresy, so worship I the God of our fathers, believing all things which have been written in the law and in the prophets:

24:15  having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is going to be a resurrection, both of the just and unjust.

24:16  In this I also exercise, to always have a conscience void of offense toward God and men.

24:17  And after many years I came to do alms and offerings to my race;

24:18  in which they found me having been purified in the temple, not with rabble, nor with an uproar; and were certain Jews from Asia,

24:19  whom it behooves to be present before me, and accuse me, if they should have anything against me.

24:20  Or let them tell what injustice they found, while I was standing before the sanhedrim,

24:21  except concerning this one voice, which I cried out standing in their midst, that concerning the resurrection of the dead I am judged before you this day.

24:22  And Felix having learned more thoroughly the things concerning the way, deferred them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch may come down, I will diagnose the things appertaining to you:

24:23  having commanded the centurion to keep him, and let him have liberty, and prohibit no one of his friends from ministering unto him.

24:24  And after certain day, Felix with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, coming, sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith which is towards Christ Jesus.

24:25  And he reasoning concerning righteousness and temperance and the coming judgment, Felix, being alarmed, responded, Go thy way for this time; and having received an opportunity, I will call for thee:

24:26  at the same time also hoping that money will be given to him by Paul; therefore indeed the more frequently sending for him, he conversed with him.

24:27  But two years having passed away Felix received Porcius Festus as his successor: and Felix, wishing to confer on the Jews a favor, left Paul bound.