But that I be not tedious unto thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldest hear us of thy courtesy a few words.

Certainly we have found this man a [a]pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a [b]chief maintainer of the sect of the [c]Nazarenes:

And hath gone about to pollute the Temple: therefore we took him, and would have judged him according to our Law:

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 24:5 Word for word, a plague.
  2. Acts 24:5 As you would say, a ringleader, or ensign bearer.
  3. Acts 24:5 So they called the Christians scoffingly of the town’s name where they thought that Christ was born, whereupon it came that Julian the Apostate called him Galilean.

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