1 AND after five days the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, went down and gave information to the procurator against Paul.
2 And he being called, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, Having obtained great peace by you, and things being happily arranged for this nation by your oversight in all things and in all places
3 we accept [it] most excellent Felix, with all thankfulness.
4 But that I may not further weary you, I beg you to hear us briefly, with your clemency.
5 For finding this man a pestilence and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a chief of the sect of the Nazoraeans,
6 who also endeavored to profane the temple, whom we also took,
7 (Added verse not retained in Sawyer)
8 from whom you will be able to learn by examination of all these things of which we accuse him.
9 And the Jews also assented, saying, These things are so.
10 And the procurator making a sign to him to speak, Paul answered, Knowing that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I shall defend myself cheerfully,
11 you being able to know that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to worship at Jerusalem.
12 And they did not find me in the temple disputing with any one, or making a disturbance of the multitude, neither in the synagogues nor in the city;
13 neither can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.
14 But this I confess to you, that in the way which they call a heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers; believing all things written in the law and the prophets,
15 having a hope in God which they also hold, that there will be a resurrection both of the righteous and wicked.
16 And in this also I endeavor always to have a conscience without offense towards God and man.
17 But after many years I came to bring charities and offerings to my nation,
18 in which certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the temple, not with a multitude, nor with a tumult,
19 who ought to be present and accuse me before you, if they have any thing against me.
20 Or let them say whether they found any unrighteousness in me when I stood before the Sanhedrim,
21 except in this one statement which I made, as I stood among them, that I am under trial by you to-day concerning the resurrection of the dead.
22 But Felix put them off, saying, Having learned more accurately of this way, when Lysias the chiliarch comes down I will decide concerning your matters,
23 and he commanded the centurion that Paul should be kept, and be freed from bonds, and that he should forbid none of his friends to serve him.
24 And after some days Felix coming with Drusilla his wife, who was a Jewess, sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.
25 And as he discoursed of righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment about to come, Felix being terrified answered, Go for the present; but when I have time I will call you.
26 At the same time also he hoped that money would be given him by Paul; and on this account sent for him the oftener, and conversed with him.