And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, by no means art thou least among the leaders of Judah for out of thee shall come forth the leader, who shall feed my people.

Nor be ye called leaders, for one is your Leader, Christ.

And having bound they brought him away, and they delivered him to Pontius Pilate, the leader.

And Jesus stood before the leader: and the leader asked him, saying, Art thou King of the Jews? Jesus said to him, Thou sayest.

And he answered him not to one word: so that the leader wondered greatly.

And in the festival the leader was accustomed to loose one imprisoned to the crowd, which they desired.

And the leader having answered, said to them, Which of the two will ye I shall loose to you? And they said, Barabbas.

And the leader said, For what evil hath he done? and they cried excessively, saying, Let him be crucified.

Then the soldiers of the leader, having taken Jesus to the Pretorium, gathered together the whole band against him.

And if this should be heard by the leader, we will persuade him, and we will make you undisturbed.

(This enrolling was first, Cyrenius being leader of Syria.)

Now in the fifteenth year of the supremacy of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being leader of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and Philip his brother being tetrarch of Iturea and the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,

And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader.

And took him out of all his pressures, and gave him grace and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt; and set him leader over Egypt and his whole house.

And truly they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercury, since he was leader of the word.

And to bring forward cattle to set Paul upon, that they might carry through safely to Felix the leader.

Having written a letter containing this type

Claudius Lysias to the most excellent leader Felix, health.

Who having come into Cesarea and given up the letter to the leader, they also placed Paul before him.

And the leader having read, and asked of what province he is, and having understood from Cilicia;

And after five days the chief priest Ananias came down with the elders, and a certain orator, Tertullus, who exhibited to the leader against Paul.

And Paul answered, the leader having nodded to him to speak, Knowing from many years thee being judge to this nation, more cheerfully do I justify things concerning myself:

And he having said these, the king arose, and the leader, and Bernice, and they sitting with them:

And shall not uncircumcision by nature, completing the law, judge thee, which by letter and circumcision a transgressor of the law?

But he in concealment, a Jew; and circumcision of the heart, in spirit, not in letter; whose approbation not of man, but of God.

And now we were left inactive from the law, having died in what we were held; so that we serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Who rendered as fitting servants of the new covenant; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter kills, and the Spirit makes alive.

And the Spirit says expressly, that in later times some shall be removed from the faith, holding to deceitful spirits, and doctrines of evil spirits;

And truly every correction for the present seems not to be for joy, but grief: and later it returns the peaceful fruit of justice to them being exercised by it.