Acts 24:1-9 Five days afterwards the High Priest Ananias came down with some of the Councillors and a barrister named Tertullus. They laid an information with the Governor against Paul;

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Five days afterwards the High Priest Ananias came down with some of the Councillors and a barrister named Tertullus. They laid an information with the Governor against Paul; ² And, when the hearing came on, Tertullus began his speech for the prosecution. ³ "We owe it to your Excellency," he said, "that we are enjoying profound peace, and we owe it to your foresight that this nation is constantly securing reforms--advantages which we very gratefully accept at all times and places. ⁴ But--not to be tedious--I beg you, with your accustomed fairness, to listen to a brief statement of our case. ⁵ We have found this man a public pest; he is one who stirs up disputes among the Jews all the world over, and is a ringleader of the Nazarene heretics. ⁶ He even attempted to desecrate the Temple itself, but we caught him; ⁷ OMITTED TEXT ⁸ And you will be able, by examining him on all these points, to satisfy yourself as to the charges which we are bringing against him." ⁹ The Jews also joined in the attack and bore out his statements.