Catholic Public Domain Version
"But lest I speak at too great a length, I beg you, by your clemency, to listen to us briefly. "
— Acts 24:4, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.”
“But, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I entreat thee to hear us of thy clemency a few words. ”
“But, that I don't delay you, I entreat you to bear with us and hear a few words.”
“But so that I may not delay you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.”
“But that I be no further tedious to thee, I desire thee of thy clemency to hear us in a few words.”
“But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.”
“Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.”
Then, after five days, the high priest Ananias came down with some of the elders and a certain Tertullus, a speaker. And they went to the governor against Paul.
And having summoned Paul, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying: “Most excellent Felix, since we have much peace through you, and many things may be corrected by your providence,
we acknowledge this, always and everywhere, with acts of thanksgiving for everything.
But lest I speak at too great a length, I beg you, by your clemency, to listen to us briefly.
We have found this man to be pestilent, to be inciting seditions among all the Jews in the entire world, and to be the author of the sedition of the sect of the Nazarenes.
And he has even been attempting to violate the temple. And having apprehended him, we wanted him to be judged according to our law.
But Lysias, the tribune, overwhelming us with great violence, snatched him away from our hands,