emtv - 24

emtv@Acts:24:1 @ Now after five days Ananias the high priest came down with the elders and a certain attorney named Tertullus, who made known to the governor the charges against Paul.

emtv@Acts:24:2 @ And when he had been called, Tertullus began to accuse [him], saying: "Attaining much peace by you and successes coming about for this nation by your foresight,

emtv@Acts:24:3 @ both in everything and everywhere we accept [it], most excellent Felix, with all thanksgiving.

emtv@Acts:24:4 @ But that I not weary you any longer, I beseech you to hear us briefly in your graciousness.

emtv@Acts:24:5 @ For [we] have found this man [to ]be a plague, and [one] causing discord among all the Jews throughout the world, and a leader of the Nazarenes sect,

emtv@Acts:24:6 @ who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we also arrested,

emtv@Acts:24:7 @ - - -

emtv@Acts:24:8 @ from whom you will be able, having judged [him] yourself, to learn about all these things of which we are accusing him."

emtv@Acts:24:9 @ And the Jews also joined in the attack, asserting that these things were so.

emtv@Acts:24:10 @ But Paul answered (the governor, having nodded for him to speak): "Knowing that you have been a judge of this nation for many years, the more cheerfully I defend the things concerning myself,

emtv@Acts:24:11 @ because you being able to know that it has not been more than twelve days since I went up to worship in Jerusalem.

emtv@Acts:24:12 @ And they did not find me with anyone in the temple disputing, or inciting a crowd to rise up, neither in the synagogues nor in the city.

emtv@Acts:24:13 @ Nor are they able to prove [against ]me the things about which they are now accusing me.

emtv@Acts:24:14 @ But I confess this to you, that according to the Way which they call a sect, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing in all things which are written throughout the Law and in the Prophets,

emtv@Acts:24:15 @ having hope in God, which even they themselves are waiting for, that there is going to be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.

emtv@Acts:24:16 @ And in this I myself am engaging, having a conscience blameless toward God and men through everything.

emtv@Acts:24:17 @ And after many years I arrived to bring alms and offerings to my nation,

emtv@Acts:24:18 @ among whom some Jews from Asia found me, having been purified in the temple, not with a crowd nor with turmoil,

emtv@Acts:24:19 @ who ought to be present before you and to make accusation if anything they might have against me.

emtv@Acts:24:20 @ Or let these themselves say what wrong they found in me, when I stood before the council,

emtv@Acts:24:21 @ unless it is because of this one statement which I cried out, standing among them, 'Concerning the resurrection of the dead I am being judged by you today.' "

emtv@Acts:24:22 @ And when he heard these things, Felix adjourned them, knowing more accurately the things[ ]concerning the Way, and said, "When Lysias the commander comes down, I will decide your case."

emtv@Acts:24:23 @ And ordering the centurion to keep watch over Paul and to let him have some liberty, and not to forbid [any] of his own to serve or to come to him.

emtv@Acts:24:24 @ Now after some days, when Felix arrived with Drusilla his wife, who was Jewish, he sent for Paul and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

emtv@Acts:24:25 @ And as he reasoned about righteousness, self-control, and the judgment which is going to be, Felix became afraid and answered, "Go away for now; but when I have opportunity I will summon you."

emtv@Acts:24:26 @ Meanwhile he also hoped that money would be given him by Paul, that he might release him. Therefore sending for him more often, he was conversing with him.

emtv@Acts:24:27 @ But after two years had passed, Felix received Porcius Festus as his successor; and Felix, desiring to grant favors to the Jews, left Paul in prison.

Acts 24