Acts 24:1-13 After fyue dayes the hye prest Ananias came downe with the Elders, and wt the Oratour Tertullus, which appeared before the Debyte agaynst Paul.

Coverdale⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ After fyue dayes the hye prest Ananias came downe with the Elders, and wt the Oratour Tertullus, which appeared before the Debyte agaynst Paul. ² Whan Paul was called forth, Tertullus begane to accuse him, and sayde: Seynge that we lyue in greate peace by the meanes of ye, and that many good thinges are done for this people thorow thy prouydence ³ (most mightie Felix)that alowe we euer and in all places with all thankes. ⁴ Notwithstondinge yt I be nomore tedious vnto the, I praye the, that of thy curtesy thou woldest heare vs a few wordes. ⁵ We haue founde this man a pestilent felowe, and a sterer vp of sedicion amonge all the Iewes thorow out all the worlde, and a manteyner of the secte of the Nazaretes, ⁶ and hath taken in hande also to suspende the temple, whom we toke, and wolde haue iudged him acordinge to oure lawe. ⁷ But Lysias the hye captayne came vpo vs, and with greate violence delyuered him out of oure handes, ⁸ and commaunded his accusers to come vnto the: of whom (yf thou wilt enquyre) thou mayest haue knowlege of all these thinges, wherof we accuse him. ⁹ The Iewes likewyse affirmed and sayde, that it was euen so. ¹⁰ But Paul (whan the debyte had beckened vnto him, that he shulde speake) answered: Seynge I knowe that thou hast bene iudge now many yeares amonge this people, I wil not be afrayed to answere for my selfe, ¹¹ because that thou mayest knowe, that there are yet no more but twolue dayes sence I came vp to Ierusalem for to worshippe, ¹² and that they nether founde me in the temple disputinge with eny man, or makynge eny vproure amonge the people, ner in ye synagoges, ner in the cite: ¹³ nether can they proue the thinges, wherof they accuse me.