And when Felix heard these things, having a more perfect knowledge of that way, he delayed them, and said, When Lysias the chief captain shall come down, I will be fully informed of your matter.
Then Paul, after the governor had beckoned to him to speak, answered, Seeing that I know that you have been for many years a judge over this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
But this I confess to you, that according to the way which they call heresy, so I worship the God of my fathers, believing all things which are written in the law and in the prophets:
Of whom I have no certain thing to write to my lord. Therefore I have brought him out before you, and especially before you, O king Agrippa, that, after examination, I might have something to write.
And requested from him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.