as they continued there for some time, Festus represented Paul's case to the king: Felix, said he, had left here a certain prisoner:

for it seems to me absurd to send a prisoner without expressing the crimes laid to his charge."

three days after, Paul sent for the chief of the Jews: and when they were assembled, he said to them, "my brethren, tho' I have done nothing against the Jews, or against the customs of our fathers, I was made a prisoner at Jerusalem, and put into the hands of the Romans:

this fellow, said they, would persuade us to set up a way of worship inconsistent with our law.

Till that word, the Jews had given their attention, but then they broke out into a full cry, "out of the world with such a fellow: for it is not fit he should live."

this man is known to be a pernicious fellow that goes about the world to raise seditions among the Jews: he is the ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,