But that I not hinder you further, I beseech you to hear us briefly in your fairness.
Since we enjoy great quietness by you, and very worthy deeds are done to this nation due to your forethought, in everything and everywhere, most noble Felix, we accept with all thankfulness.
For we have found this man pestilent, and moving rebellion among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I wrote before in few words,
Let your moderation be known to all men. The Lord is at hand.
And what more shall I say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gideon and Barak and Samson and Jephthah; also David, and Samuel and the prophets,