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.
In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix.
For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:
How by revelation the secret was made clear to me, as I said before in a short letter,
Let your gentle behaviour be clear to all men. The Lord is near.
What more am I to say? For there would not be time to give the stories of Gideon, Barak, Samson, and Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets: