1 And after five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney, a certain Tertullus, all of whom brought charges against Paul to the governor.
2 And when he had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “We have experienced much peace through you, and reforms are taking place in this nation through your foresight.
3 Both in every way and everywhere we acknowledge this, most excellent Felix, with all gratitude.
4 But so that I may not impose on you for longer, I implore you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.
5 For we have found this man to be a public menace and one who causes riots among all the Jews throughout the Roman Empire and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
6 who even attempted to desecrate the temple, and we arrested him.