American Standard Version
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— Acts 24:7, American Standard Version
“But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,”
“But Lysias the tribune, coming upon us with great violence, took him away out of our hands;”
“But the chief captain Lysias came upon us, and with great violence took him away out of our hands,”
But, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I entreat thee to hear us of thy clemency a few words.
For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:
who moreover assayed to profane the temple: on whom also we laid hold:
from whom thou wilt be able, by examining him thyself, to take knowledge of all these things whereof we accuse him.
And the Jews also joined in the charge, affirming that these things were so.
And when the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, Paul answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I cheerfully make my defence: