Acts 24
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Acts 24:5-14

5For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes: 6Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law. 7But the chief captain Lysias came, and with great violence took him out of our hands, 8Commanding his accusers to come to thee: by examining whom thou thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, of which we accuse him. 9And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so.

10Then 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: 11That thou mayest understand, that there are yet but twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship. 12And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither provoking the people to sedition, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city: 13Neither can they prove the things of which they now accuse me. 14But 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:

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