1 Five days later the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and a lawyer named Tertullus. They pressed charges against Paul before the governor.
2 After the governor summoned Paul, Tertullus began to make his case against him. He declared, "Under your leadership, we have experienced substantial peace, and your administration has brought reforms to our nation.
3 Always and everywhere, most honorable Felix, we acknowledge this with deep gratitude.
4 I don’t want to take too much of your time, so I ask that you listen with your usual courtesy to our brief statement of the facts.
5 We have found this man to be a troublemaker who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the empire. He’s a ringleader of the Nazarene faction