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| [1]And from after days five descended Khanan-Yah High The Priest with The Elders and with Tertullos the orator and they informed The Governor concerning Paulus |
[1]And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator -- Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor [the things] against Paul; |
| [2]And when he was called beginning he was Tertullos to accuse him and said in abundance of tranquility we dwell because of you and excellent stability much is to people this in receiving your care |
[2]and he having been called, Tertullus began to accuse [him], saying, `Much peace enjoying through thee, and worthy deeds being done to this nation through thy forethought, |
| [3]And we all in every place we receive your grace Excellent Felix |
[3]always, also, and everywhere we receive it, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness; |
| [4]That not but we may weary you with many things beg I of you to hear our lowliness briefly |
[4]and that I may not be further tedious to thee, I pray thee to hear us concisely in thy gentleness; |
| [5]We have found for man this who is a corruptor and an arouser of tumult to all of them the Jews who are in every land the leader he is for of the teaching of The Nazarene |
[5]for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world -- a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes -- |
| [6]And our temple he wanted to defile and when we seized him we sought to judge him according to what is in our Law |
[6]who also the temple did try to profane, whom also we took, and according to our law did wish to judge, |
| [7]Came but Lusias The Chiliarch and with violence great from our hands snatched him and to you sent him |
[7]and Lysias the chief captain having come near, with much violence, out of our hands did take away, |
| [8]And he commanded his accusers to come unto you and can you when question you him to learn from him concerning all these things of which we accuse him |
[8]having commanded his accusers to come to thee, from whom thou mayest be able, thyself having examined, to know concerning all these things of which we accuse him;' |
| [9]Cried out but concerning him also those Jews as they were saying "These things so are" |
[9]and the Jews also agreed, professing these things to be so. |
| [10]And beckoned The Governor to Paulus to speak and answered Paulus and said of years many know I that you are The Judge of nation this and because of this gladly render I a defense for the sake of myself |
[10]And Paul answered -- the governor having beckoned to him to speak -- `Knowing [that] for many years thou hast been a judge to this nation, the more cheerfully the things concerning myself I do answer; |
| [11]As may you know it is not for me more than twelve days since I came up to Jerusalem to worship |
[11]thou being able to know that it is not more than twelve days to me since I went up to worship in Jerusalem, |
| [12]Neither did they find me that was speaking I with a man in the temple nor a crowd that gathered I not in their synagogues neither in the city |
[12]and neither in the temple did they find me reasoning with any one, or making a dissension of the multitude, nor in the synagogues, nor in the city; |
| [13]Neither to demonstrate has it come into their hands before you concerning anything of which now they accuse me |
[13]nor are they able to prove against me the things concerning which they now accuse me. |
| [14]Yet but this confess I that in it in the same doctrine of which they speak in it serve I The Alaha of my fathers as believe I all things which are written in The Law and in The Prophets |
[14]`And I confess this to thee, that, according to the way that they call a sect, so serve I the God of the fathers, believing all things that in the law and the prophets have been written, |
| [15]And while have I hope upon Alaha which so also they these things preach that there is going to be resurrection which is of the place of the dead of the righteous and of the evil |
[15]having hope toward God, which they themselves also wait for, [that] there is about to be a rising again of the dead, both of righteous and unrighteous; |
| [16]Because of this also labor I that a conscience pure may be to me before Alaha and before the sons of men always |
[16]and in this I do exercise myself, to have a conscience void of offence toward God and men always. |
| [17]Years but many I have come to the children of people my to give charity and to offer gifts |
[17]`And after many years I came, about to do kind acts to my nation, and offerings, |
| [18]Found me these men in the temple when was purified I not with the crowds neither with a tumult |
[18]in which certain Jews from Asia did find me purified in the temple, not with multitude, nor with tumult, |
| [19]But if they stirred up people the Jews who came from Asia those who obligated are to stand with me before you and to bring charge whatever have they |
[19]whom it behoveth to be present before thee, and to accuse, if they had anything against me, |
| [20]Or they these let say what? they have found in me offense when I stood before their Council |
[20]or let these same say if they found any unrighteousness in me in my standing before the sanhedrim, |
| [21]Except only this one statement which I cried when stood I in their midst that for the resurrection of the dead am judged I today before you |
[21]except concerning this one voice, in which I cried, standing among them -- Concerning a rising again of the dead I am judged to-day by you.' |
| [22]Felix but because knew he it way this fully he deferred them when he said "When comes The Chiliarch shall hear I between you" |
[22]And having heard these things, Felix delayed them -- having known more exactly of the things concerning the way -- saying, `When Lysias the chief captain may come down, I will know fully the things concerning you;' |
| [23]And he ordered the Centurion to guard him Paulus at ease and that not a man of his acquaintances would be forbidden to be ministering to him |
[23]having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let [him] also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him. |
| [24]And from after a few days sent Felix and Dursila his wife who was a Jewess and they called him Paulus and they heard from him concerning the faith of The Messiah |
[24]And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ, |
| [25]And when he was speaking with them of righteousness and upon holiness and upon judgment that was going to be fulfilled was afraid Filix and he said now go and when there is to me a place I shall send after you |
[25]and he reasoning concerning righteousness, and temperance, and the judgment that is about to be, Felix, having become afraid, answered, `For the present be going, and having got time, I will call for thee;' |
| [26]Hoped he had for that a bribe be given would to him by Paulus because of this also continually sending he was to bring him and speaking with him |
[26]and at the same time also hoping that money shall be given to him by Paul, that he may release him, therefore, also sending for him the oftener, he was conversing with him; |
| [27]And when were fulfilled to him two years the next Governor come was in his place who called was Porqius-Festus Filix but so as to do a favor for the Jews he left him Paulus as a prisoner |
[27]and two years having been fulfilled, Felix received a successor, Porcius Festus; Felix also willing to lay a favour on the Jews, left Paul bound. |