But –not to detain you too long– I beg you in your forbearance to listen to a brief statement from us.
in every instance and in every place we accept them with profound gratitude.
For we have found this man Paul a source of mischief and a disturber of the peace among all the Jews throughout the Empire, and a ringleader in the heresy of the Nazarenes.
and that by a revelation the truth hitherto kept secret was made known to me as I have already briefly explained it to you.
Let your forbearing spirit be known to every one–the Lord is near.
And why need I say more? For time will fail me if I tell the story of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, and of David and Samuel and the Prophets;