1. Then, after five days, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and a certain Tertullus, a speaker. And they went to the governor against Paul.
2. And having summoned Paul, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: "Most excellent Felix, since we have much peace through you, and many things may be corrected by your providence,
3. we acknowledge this, always and everywhere, with acts of thanksgiving for everything.
4. But lest I speak at too great a length, I beg you, by your clemency, to listen to us briefly.
5. We have found this man to be pestilent, to be inciting seditions among all the Jews in the entire world, and to be the author of the sedition of the sect of the Nazarenes.
6. And he has even been attempting to violate the temple. And having apprehended him, we wanted him to be judged according to our law.
7. But Lysias, the tribune, overwhelming us with great violence, snatched him away from our hands,
8. ordering his accusers to come to you. From them, you yourself will be able, by judging about all these things, to understand the reason that we accuse him."
9. And then the Jews interjected, saying that these things were so.
10. Then, since the governor had motioned for him to speak, Paul responded: "Knowing that you have been the judge over this nation for many years, I will give an explanation of myself with an honest soul.
11. For, as you may realize, it has only been twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.
12. And they did not find me in the temple arguing with anyone, nor causing a rally of the people: neither in the synagogues, nor in the city.
13. And they are not able to prove to you the things about which they now accuse me.