1. After five days the high priest Ananias came down with some elders and an attorney named Tertullus, and they brought formal charges against Paul to the governor.
2. When Paul had been summoned, Tertullus began to accuse him, saying, “We have experienced a lengthy time of peace through your rule, and reforms are being made in this nation through your foresight.
3. Most excellent Felix, we acknowledge this everywhere and in every way with all gratitude.
4. But so that I may not delay you any further, I beg you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness.
5. For we have found this man to be a troublemaker, one who stirs up riots among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.