3 we accept it always and in all places, most excellent Felix, with all thanks.
4 “But in order not to hinder you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly in your gentleness.
5 “For having found this man a plague, who stirs up dissension among all the Yehuḏim throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Natsarenes,
6 who also tried to profane the Set-apart Place, and whom we seized, and wished to judge him according to our law,
7 but the commander Lysias came along and with much violence took him out of our hands,
8 commanding his accusers to come to you. And by examining him yourself you shall be able to know all these matters of which we accuse him.”
9 And the Yehuḏim also agreed, maintaining that these matters were so.