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Acts 24:3-5
Lexham English Bible
Acts 24:3-5
Lexham English Bible
3 Both in every way and everywhere we acknowledge this,[a] most excellent Felix, with all gratitude. 4 But so that I may not impose on you for longer, I implore you to hear us briefly with your customary graciousness. 5 For we have found[b] this man to be a public menace and one who causes riots among all the Jews throughout the Roman Empire[c] and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes,
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- Acts 24:3 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
- Acts 24:5 Here this participle (“found”) has been translated as a finite verb in keeping with English style
- Acts 24:5 Literally “the inhabited earth,” but here this is probably rhetorical hyperbole for the Roman Empire, especially since Felix, the Roman governor, is being addressed
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