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| Acts 24:1 | And after five days, Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and with a certain orator named Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul. | And after five days, the high priest, Ananias, came with certain of the rulers, and an expert talker, one Tertullus; and they made a statement to Felix against Paul. | And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor [the things] against Paul; |
| Acts 24:2 | And when he was called forth, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Seeing that by thee we enjoy great quietness, and that very worthy deeds are done to this nation by thy providence, | And when he had been sent for, Tertullus, starting his statement, said, Because by you we are living in peace, and through your wisdom wrongs are put right for this nation, | and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse [him], saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought, |
| Acts 24:3 | We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness. | In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix. | always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness; |
| Acts 24:4 | Notwithstanding, that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldst of thy clemency hear us a few words. | 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. | and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness; |
| Acts 24:5 | For we have found this a pestilent man, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes: | 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: | for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes |
| Acts 24:6 | Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. | Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took, | who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge, |
| Acts 24:7 | But the chief captain Lysias came and with great violence took him out of our hands, | [] | and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away, |
| Acts 24:8 | Commanding his accusers to come to thee: by examining whom, thou thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things of which we accuse him. | And from whom you will be able, by questioning him yourself, to get knowledge of all the things which we say against him. | having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;` |
| Acts 24:9 | And the Jews also assented, saying, that these things were so. | And the Jews were in agreement with his statement, saying that these things were so. | and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so. |
| Acts 24:10 | Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned to him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been for many years a judge to this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself: | 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: | And Paul answered the governor having beckoned to him to speak `Knowing [that] for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer; |
| Acts 24:11 | That thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship. | 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; | thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem, |
| Acts 24:12 | And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither exciting the people to sedition, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: | 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: | and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city; |
| Acts 24:13 | Neither can they prove the things of which they now accuse me. | And they are not able to give facts in support of the things which they say against me now. | nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me. |
| Acts 24:14 | But this I confess to thee, that after the way which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets: | 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: | `And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written, |
| Acts 24:15 | And have hope towards God, which they themselves also allow, that there will be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust. | Hoping in God for that which they themselves are looking for, that there will be a coming back from the dead for upright men and wrongdoers. | having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, [that] there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous; |
| Acts 24:16 | And in this I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards men. | And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men. | and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always. |
| Acts 24:17 | Now after many years, I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings. | Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation: | `And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings, |
| Acts 24:18 | Upon which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult. | And having been made clean, I was in the Temple, but not with a great number of people, and not with noise: but there were certain Jews from Asia, | in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult, |
| Acts 24:19 | Who ought to have been here before thee, and object if they had aught against me. | And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me. | whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me, |
| Acts 24:20 | Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil-doing in me, while I stood before the council, | Or let these men here present say what wrongdoing was seen in me when I was before the Sanhedrin, | or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim, |
| Acts 24:21 | Except it is for this one voice, that I cried, standing among them, Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am called in question by you this day. | But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead. | except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.` |
| Acts 24:22 | And when Felix heard these things, having more perfect knowledge of that way, he deferred them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will know the uttermost of your matter. | But Felix, who had a more detailed knowledge of the Way, put them off, saying, When Lysias, the chief captain, comes down, I will give attention to your business. | And having heard these things, Felix delayed them having known more exactly of the things concerning the way saying, `When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;` |
| Acts 24:23 | And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister, or come to him. | And he gave orders to the captain to keep Paul under his control, and to let him have everything he had need of; and not to keep his friends from coming to see him. | having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let [him] also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him. |
| Acts 24:24 | And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ. | But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was of the Jews by birth, and sent for Paul, and gave hearing to him about faith in Christ Jesus. | And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ, |
| Acts 24:25 | And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, depart for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee. | And while he was talking about righteousness and self-control and the judging which was to come, Felix had great fear and said, Go away for the present, and when the right time comes I will send for you. | and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;` |
| Acts 24:26 | He hoped also that money would have been given him by Paul, that he might loose him: wherefore he sent for him the oftener, and communed with him. | For he was hoping that Paul would give him money: so he sent for him more frequently and had talk with him. | and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him; |
| Acts 24:27 | But after two years Porcius Festus came as successor to Felix: and Felix willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. | But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains. | and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound. |
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