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\subsection{Acts 24}
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\VS{1} So after five days the chief priest Ananias came down with certain elders and
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[a] lawyer, a certain Tertullus, who informed the ruler against Paul.
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\VS{2} So
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having been called, Tertullus began to be accusing [him] saying: Attaining much
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peace through you, and reforms having come to pass to this nation through
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your foresight,
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\VS{3} always and everywhere we recognize, O most excellent
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Felix, with all gratitude.
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\VS{4} So in order that I not detain you further,
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I call upon you to hear us briefly in your fairness.
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\VS{5} For having found
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this man [a] pestilent [fellow], and moving to strife all the Jews against the world
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ruler, and of the sect of the Nazarenes, who even attempted to profane the
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temple,
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\VS{6} whom we also arrested, and according to our own law we wanted
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to judge.
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\VS{7} But Lusias the commander, having come with much violence,
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brought him out of our hands,
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\VS{8} having ordered his accusers to be
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coming to you, by which you yourself will be able, having examined
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concerning all these [things], to know what we accuse of him.
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\VS{9} So the Jews
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also joined in the attack, asserting to be having these [things] thusly.
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\VS{10} And
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Paul answered, the ruler having nodded to him, saying: Knowing that you have
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been judge to this nation for many years I cheerfully defend the [things],
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\VS{11} you being able to know that there are not more than twelve days to me from
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which I went up praying to Jerusalem.
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\VS{12} And they neither found me in
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the temple discussing with some nor making [an] attack of the people, neither in
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the synagogues nor in the city,
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\VS{13} nor are they able to present to you
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concerning what they now accuse of me.
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\VS{14} So I confess this to you,
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that according to the way which they call [a] sect, thus do I minister to the
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God of [my] fathers, believing in everything having been written in the law and
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the prophets,
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\VS{15} having hope in God, whom these themselves also accept,
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in the impending resurrection of the just and the unjust.
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\VS{16} In this I
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also engage myself, having [a] clear conscience to God and men in everything.
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\VS{17} But for more years I came doing mercies to my nation, and offerings,
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\VS{18} in which they found me purified in the temple, not with crowd or
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turmoil,
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\VS{19} but some Jews from Asia, who must be present before you and
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be accusing if [they] have anything against me.
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\VS{20} Or let\fnImperative{} these themselves say what injustice they found,
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having stood me before the council,
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\VS{21} or concerning this one voice
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which I cried out standing among them, that: Concerning [the] resurrection of the
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dead am I judged today by you.
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\VS{22} So Felix postponed them, carefully
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knowing the [things] concerning the Way, saying: When Lucias the commander comes
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down, I will determine the [things] according to you;
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\VS{23} having ordered the
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centurion to keep him, and him to be having freedom and to be hindering none
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of his own to be serving him.
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\VS{24} So after some days Felix, having
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arrived with Drusilla his wife being Jewish, he sent for Paul, and heard
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from him concerning belief in Christ Jesus.
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\VS{25} So while he was
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discussing concerning justice and self-control and the impending judgment,
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Felix having become frightened answered: For the time being be going, and
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having [an] opportune-time\fnKairos{} I will summon you;
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\VS{26} together also hoping that
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he will be given money by Paul. Therefore also having more often summoned
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him he conversed with him.
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\VS{27} So two years having been fulfilled, Felix
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received [his] successor Porkios Phestus. And wanting to grant the Jews [a] grace,
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Felix left Paul bound.
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