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| Acts 24:1 | 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; | Five days after this, Ananias the High Priest came down to Caesarea with a number of Elders and a pleader called Tertullus. They stated to the Governor the case against Paul. | And 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. |
| Acts 24:2 | 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, | So Paul was sent for, and Tertullus began to impeach him as follows: "Indebted as we are," he said, "to you, most noble Felix, for the perfect peace which we enjoy, and for reforms which your wisdom has introduced to this nation, | And 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, |
| Acts 24:3 | always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness; | in every instance and in every place we accept them with profound gratitude. | we receive [it] always and everywhere, most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness. |
| Acts 24:4 | and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness; | But not to detain you too long I beg you in your forbearance to listen to a brief statement from us. | But that I may not too much intrude on thy time, I beseech thee to hear us briefly in thy kindness. |
| Acts 24:5 | 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 | For we have found this man Paul a source of mischief and a disturber of the peace among all the Jews throughout the Empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes. | For finding this man a pest, and moving sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the sect of the Nazaraeans; |
| Acts 24:6 | who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge, | He even attempted to profane the Temple, but we arrested him. | who also attempted to profane the temple; whom we also had seized, [and would have judged according to our law; |
| Acts 24:7 | and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away, | [] | but Lysias, the chiliarch, coming up, took [him] away with great force out of our hands, |
| Acts 24:8 | 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;` | You, however, by examining him, will yourself be able to learn the truth as to all this which we allege against him." | having 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. |
| Acts 24:9 | and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so. | The Jews also joined in the charge, maintaining that these were facts. | And the Jews also joined in pressing the matter against [Paul], saying that these things were so. |
| Acts 24:10 | 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; | Then, at a sign from the Governor, Paul answered, "Knowing, Sir, that for many years you have administered justice to this nation, I cheerfully make my defence. | But 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. |
| Acts 24:11 | thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem, | For you have it in your power to ascertain that it is not more than twelve days ago that I went up to worship in Jerusalem; | As thou mayest know that there are not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem, |
| Acts 24:12 | 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; | and that neither in the Temple nor in the synagogues, nor anywhere in the city, did they find me disputing with any opponent or collecting a crowd about me. | and 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; |
| Acts 24:13 | nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me. | Nor can they prove the charges which they are now bringing against me. | neither can they make good the things of which they now accuse me. |
| Acts 24:14 | `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, | But this I confess to you that in the way which they style a heresy, I worship the God of our forefathers, believing everything that is taught in the Law or is written in the Prophets, | But 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; |
| Acts 24:15 | 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; | and having a hope directed towards God, which my accusers themselves also entertain, that before long there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and the unrighteous. | having hope towards God, which they themselves also receive, that there is to be a resurrection both of just and unjust. |
| Acts 24:16 | and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always. | This too is my own earnest endeavour always to have a clear conscience in relation to God and man. | For this cause I also exercise [myself] to have in everything a conscience without offence towards God and men. |
| Acts 24:17 | `And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings, | "Now after an interval of several years I came to bring alms to my nation, and to offer sacrifices. | And after a lapse of many years I arrived, bringing alms to my nation, and offerings. |
| Acts 24:18 | in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult, | While I was busy about these, they found me in the Temple purified, with no crowd around me and no uproar; but there were certain Jews from the province of Asia. | Whereupon they found me purified in the temple, with neither crowd nor tumult. But it was certain Jews from Asia, |
| Acts 24:19 | whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me, | They ought to have been here before you, and to have been my prosecutors, if they have any charge to bring against me. | who ought to appear before thee and accuse, if they have anything against me; |
| Acts 24:20 | or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim, | Or let these men themselves say what misdemeanour they found me guilty of when I stood before the Sanhedrin, | or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me when I stood before the council, |
| Acts 24:21 | 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.` | unless it was in that one expression which I made use of when I shouted out as I stood among them, "`The resurrection of the dead is the thing about which I am on my trial before you to-day.'" | [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. |
| Acts 24:22 | 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;` | At this point Felix, who was fairly well informed about the new faith, adjourned the trial, saying to the Jews, "When the Tribune Lysias comes down, I will enter carefully into the matter." | And Felix, knowing accurately the things concerning the way, adjourned them, saying, When Lysias the chiliarch is come down I will determine your affair; |
| Acts 24:23 | 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. | And he gave orders to the Captain that Paul was to be kept in custody, but be treated with indulgence, and that his personal friends were not to be prevented from showing him kindness. | ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him. |
| Acts 24:24 | 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, | Not long after this, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, a Jewess, and sending for Paul, listened to him as he spoke about faith in Christ Jesus. | And 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. |
| Acts 24:25 | 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;` | But when he dealt with the subjects of justice, self-control, and the judgement which was soon to come, Felix became alarmed and said, "For the present leave me, and when I can find a convenient opportunity I will send for you." | And 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; |
| Acts 24:26 | 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; | At the same time he hoped that Paul would give him money; and for this reason he sent for him the oftener to converse with him. | hoping at the same time that money would be given him by Paul: wherefore also he sent for him the oftener and communed with him. |
| Acts 24:27 | 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. | But after the lapse of fully two years Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and being desirous of gratifying the Jews, Felix left Paul still in prison. | But 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. |
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