Acts 24:4-6

The Voice

⁴ But knowing how busy you are and how limited your time must be, I beg you to hear us briefly present our case to you with the legendary graciousness for which you are known everywhere.

⁵ Here are the facts: this man is a disease to the body politic. He agitates trouble in Jewish communities throughout our empire as a ringleader of the heretical sect known as the Nazarenes. ⁶ He even tried to desecrate the temple, so we seized him. [Our aim was to try him by the Jewish law,