2And when he had been sent for, Tertullus, starting his statement, said, Because by you we are living in peace, and through your wisdom wrongs are put right for this nation,
3In all things and in all places we are conscious of our great debt to you, most noble Felix.
4But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.
5For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:
6Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,