5. For we have found this man a plague, a creator of dissension among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.
6. He even tried to profane the temple, and we seized him, and wanted to judge him according to our law.
7. But the commander Lysias came by and with great violence took him out of our hands,
8. commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him yourself you may ascertain all these things of which we accuse him.”
9. And the Jews also assented, maintaining that these things were so.
10. Then Paul, after the governor had nodded to him to speak, answered: “Inasmuch as I know that you have been for many years a judge of this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself,