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Acts 24:5

James Moffatt - New Testament

The fact is, we have found this man is a perfect pest; he stirs up sedition among the Jews all over the world and he is a ringleader of the Nazarene sect.

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We think it only right to let you tell your own story; but as regards this sect, we are well aware that there are objections to it on all hands."

I certainly admit to you that I worship our fathers' God according to the methods of what they call a 'sect'; but I believe all that is written in the Law and in the prophets,

They know me of old. They know, if they chose to admit it, that as a Pharisee I lived by the principles of the strictest party in our religion.

But some of the believers who belonged to the Pharisaic party got up and said, "Gentiles must be circumcised and told to observe the law of Moses."

when defamed, we try to conciliate. To this hour we are treated as the scum of the earth, the very refuse of the world!

shouting, "To the rescue, men of Israel! Here is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against the People and the Law and this Place! And he has actually brought Greeks inside the temple and defiled this holy Place!"

This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy;

They proceeded to accuse him, saying, "We have discovered this fellow perverting our nation, forbidding tribute being paid to Caesar, and alleging he is king messiah."

for it is a merit when from a sense of God one bears the pain of unjust suffering.

There must be parties among you, if genuine Christians are to be recognized.

Till he said that, they had listened to him. But at that they shouted, "Away with such a creature from the earth! He is not fit to live!"

They also brought forward false witnesses to say, "This fellow is never done talking against this holy Place and the Law!

he released the man they wanted, the man who had been imprisoned for riot and murder, and Jesus he handed over to their will.

(This was a man who had been put into prison on account of a riot which had taken place in the city and also on a charge of murder.)

But they insisted, "He stirs up the people by teaching all over Judaea. He started from Galilee and now he is here."

enough for the scholar to fare like his teacher, and the servant like his lord. If men have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they miscall his servants!

He went and settled in a town called Nazaret, so that what had been said by the prophets might be fulfilled: 'He shall be called a Nazarene.'

"Jesus of Nazaret, what business have you with us? Have you come to destroy us? We know who you are, you are God's holy One."

I have no wish to weary you, but I beg of you to grant us in your courtesy a brief hearing.

When he arrived, the Jews who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him and brought a number of serious charges against him, none of which they were able to prove.




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