Acts 24:4-6

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁴I don’t want to keep you too long. Please listen to us. We will be brief. ⁵We have found this man to be a troublemaker. He starts quarrels among all Jews throughout the world. He’s a ringleader of the Nazarene sect. ⁶He also entered the temple courtyard in a way that violates our tradition. So we arrested him.^[a]

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Footnotes

24:6 Some manuscripts and translations add verses 6b–8a: “We wanted to try him under our law. But the officer Lysias used force to take him from us. He ordered his accusers to come in front of you.”