Acts 24:5-7

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁵ For we have found this man a perfect pest (a real plague), an agitator and source of disturbance to all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the [heretical, ^[a]division-producing] sect of the Nazarenes.

⁶ He also [even] tried to desecrate and defile the temple, but we laid hands on him ^[b]and would have sentenced him by our Law,

⁷ But the commandant Lysias came and took him from us with violence and force,