But, so that I will not burden you any further, I request that you would be kind enough to give us a brief hearing. For we have found this man to be a plague,(A) an agitator(B) among all the Jews throughout the Roman world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.(C) He even tried to desecrate the temple, and so we apprehended him.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 24:6 Some mss include vv. 6b-8a: and wanted to judge him according to our law. But Lysias the commander came and took him from our hands with great force, commanding his accusers to come to you.

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