Acts 24:4-9 But--not to be tedious--I beg you, with your accustomed fairness, to listen to a brief statement of our case.

Twentieth_Century⁽ⁱ⁾ 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.