Acts 24:4-6

Amplified Bible, Classic Edition

⁴ But not to hinder or detain you too long, I beg you in your clemency and courtesy and kindness to grant us a brief and ^[a]concise hearing.

⁵ For we have found this man a perfect pest (a real plague), an agitator and source of disturbance to all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the [heretical, ^[b]division-producing] sect of the Nazarenes.

⁶ He also [even] tried to desecrate and defile the temple, but we laid hands on him ^[c]and would have sentenced him by our Law,