For we have found this man a public menace and one who stirs up dissensions among all the Jews throughout [a]the world, and a ringleader of the (A)sect of the Nazarenes. And he even tried to (B)desecrate the temple, so indeed we arrested him.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 24:5 Lit the inhabited earth
  2. Acts 24:6 Late mss add as the remainder of v 6: We wanted to judge him according to our own Law. v 7: But Lysias the commander came along and took him out of our hands with much violence, and the first part of v 8: ordering his accusers to come before you.

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