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For having found this man to be a plague[a], and setting-in-motion disputes[b] among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, who even tried to profane[c] the temple, whom also we seized—[d] [e]

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  1. Acts 24:5 That is, a public menace, a diseased one threatening our society.
  2. Acts 24:5 Or more strongly, riots.
  3. Acts 24:6 Tertullus is referring to 21:28-29. If he could prove this, Felix would execute Paul.
  4. Acts 24:6 Tertullus stops short of expressing their demand, leaving it to Felix to determine the penalty for himself.
  5. Acts 24:7 Some manuscripts say ‘seized. And we wanted to judge him according to our Law. But having arrived, Lysias the commander led him away from our hands with much violence, having commanded his accusers to come before you, from whom’.

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